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intelligibleness en · NOUN

Etymology

From intelligible + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being intelligible.
    • Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon. 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,:
    • A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete. 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography: