Intelligibility

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The quality or character of being intelligible; capability of being understood.
  • noun. The property of possessing intelligence or understanding; intellection.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
  • noun. The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of language that is comprehensible
  • Word Usage
    "So considering that intelligibility is as much a feature of the listener as it is of the speaker, how could we expect to use communication breakdowns as a motivation to teach pronunciation?"
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