intelligibleness

English

Etymology

intelligible +‎ -ness

Noun

intelligibleness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being intelligible.
    • 1873, John Stuart Mill, Autobiography‎:
      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.
    • 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,‎:
      Clearness, intelligibleness, exactitude were insisted upon.
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