Dictionary

legibility en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /lɛd͡ʒ.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi] (Canada, General-American)
• /ˌlɛd͡ʒ.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/ (Canada, General-American)
• audio Colorado

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The property of being legible or easily readable.
   • The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another. 1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter:
   • The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.

Forms

Antonyms

illegibility

Deriveds

interlegibility

Synonyms

readability

Translations (15)

ro legibilitate (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · cs čitelnost (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · sv läsbarhet (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · fi luettavuus (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · ru разборчивость (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · bg четливост (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · tr okunaklılık (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · pt legibilidade (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · nl leesbaarheid (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · nb leselighet (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · es legibilidad (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · hu olvashatóság (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · fr lisibilité (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · ca llegibilitat (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability) · de Lesbarkeit (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability)