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audibility

audibility

1 6.3
How well you can hear a sound
  • noun
  • /ɔːˈdɪbɪlɪti/
translation icon : audibilidad
  • Classroom sound-field systems improve the overall audibility of the teacher's voice for everyone in the class.
  • threshold of audibility

Examples

  • The audiograms presented above serve only as an illustration of how aided and unaided hearing sensitivity may affect the audibility of traffic sounds.

    Academic text (1997)
  • In a loud concert, the audibility of the singer's voice was occasionally drowned out by the instruments.

  • Therefore, the audibility of the noise may vary depending on the environment.

    Academic text (1997)
  • But it should be possible to transpose your music to within our limits of audibility.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • She sighs just on the edge of audibility.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • It is important to note that the threshold of audibility should, in most instances, be better for noise than for pure tones.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Amplitude compression is widely used in hearing aids to provide audibility without making loud sounds uncomfortable.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Finally, the audibility of energy present at frequencies from 125 to 250 Hz may be sufficient to allow interpretation of traffic movement.

    Academic text (1997)
  • It is, therefore, important to understand the auditory thresholds of the traveler and the nature and audibility of traffic sounds.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The teacher raised her voice to ensure the audibility of her instructions for all students in the classroom.

Synonyms

audibleness
vsaudibility
6.8

The ability to be heard clearly

is the same meaning but exists as a different word form
acoustic projection
vsaudibility
  • Specialized
7.0

A sound quality that makes a voice or instrument travel far and be heard clearly

is specific to being heard by the ear, not about clarity or distance
sound projection
vsaudibility
  • Specialized
6.4

How far and how clearly people hear a sound in a place

is the basic ability to be heard, not the tendency to travel far
perceptibility
vsaudibility
7.2

A quality that makes something easy to notice by the senses or mind

is limited to perception by the ear rather than other senses or mind

Antonyms

The quality of not being able to be heard

How Loud

loudness
  • Specialized
4 1.8
audibility
1 6.3
faintness
1 5.5

Surface Forms

audibility singular
audibilities plural

Morphology

audibility = audible (transparent) = audible + ity

Derived by the regular noun-forming suffix '-ity' from the adjective 'audible', so the meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Audibility comes from the Latin root aud- (from audire) meaning 'to hear', the same root you see in audio, audible, and audience. So, audibility is the quality of how well something can be heard.