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comprehensibility

Definitions of comprehensibility
  1. noun
    the quality of comprehensible language or thought
    synonyms: understandability
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    antonyms:
    incomprehensibility
    the quality of being incomprehensible
    types:
    legibility, readability
    a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read
    intelligibility
    the quality of language that is comprehensible
    clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity
    the quality of being coherent and easily understood
    coherence, coherency
    logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
    readability
    the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand
    speech intelligibility
    the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion)
    monosemy
    having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases
    focus
    maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea
    clearcutness, preciseness
    clarity as a consequence of precision
    perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness
    clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
    unambiguity, unequivocalness
    clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
    explicitness
    clarity as a consequence of being explicit
    type of:
    quality
    an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
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