unintelligibility

Examples

• All

• The unintelligibility of his speech made it hard for the audience to follow his main points.

• Many students struggle with the unintelligibility of the complex mathematical concepts presented in class.

• The relationship, erotic or loving, between the couple is located precisely at the site of unintelligibility.

  Academic text (2017)

• Everyone knows that complicatedness = unintelligibility, especially when money is the protagonist.

  Blog text (31)

• I remember the telegrams, the vacancy of my mother's absence for a week or so, the unintelligibility of a death so remote.

  Academic text (1990)

• That form focuses on the question of the allegedly increasing unintelligibility of work in the main fields of the humanities to any but the adepts of the relevant discipline.

  Academic text (1999)

• The unintelligibility of sacred ritual languages suggests, Tambiah argues, that the words are used differently than in normal communication; the magic words are conceived as things, causes, and acts rather than as vehicles of meaning.

  Academic text (1996)

• This kind or level of emptiness and unintelligibility is compatible with the individual speaking and acting with others apparently intelligibly, and this is part of what makes it so intractable and infuriating.

  Academic text (2000)

• The seeming unintelligibility of their friendship keeps it uncoopted by the contents and contexts of colonialism and anticolonial nationalism.

  Academic text (2016)

• There is merely the external form of a society and a veil of apparent concord beneath which lies an unassessed degree of isolation, unintelligibility, discord, and force.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

I

incoherence

vsunintelligibility

5 7.3

Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow

is about being hard to understand overall, not only disorganized

I

incomprehension

vsunintelligibility

4 6.9

A feeling of not being able to understand something

is the general quality of being hard to understand, not an individual state

I

incomprehensibility

vsunintelligibility

1 9.9

A state where something is very hard to understand

is the general label for that same quality of not being understood

I

inscrutability

vsunintelligibility

1 9.9

A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for

is broader, meaning hard to understand without focusing on interpretation

U

unknowability

vsunintelligibility

1 9.9

A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand

is about being hard to understand rather than impossible to know

I

inexplicability

vsunintelligibility

1 9.8

A state when something cannot be explained or understood

is about being hard to understand without focusing on explaining

I

indecipherability

vsunintelligibility

1 9.9

A difficulty understanding handwriting, signs, or codes

is the general state of being hard to understand, not only text

I

incoherency

vsunintelligibility

1 7.5

A lack of clear, organized speech or writing that makes it hard to follow

is a general state of being difficult to understand, not only disordered

I

impenetrability

vsunintelligibility

9.9

Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated

is the general state of being hard to understand, not just complex

A

abstrusity

vsunintelligibility

• Formal

9.9

The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex

is the general difficulty of understanding rather than deep complexity

I

impalpability

vsunintelligibility

9.9

You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind

is broader, meaning hard to understand beyond only mental grasp

U

unreadability

vsunintelligibility

7.7

Writing that is hard to understand or enjoy

is broader, applying to any thing that is hard to understand

U

unclarity

vsunintelligibility

7.7

Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion

is stronger, meaning impossible or very difficult rather than mildly unclear

N

noncomprehension

vsunintelligibility

8.1

A lack of understanding of instructions or ideas

is the quality of being hard to understand, not a person's lack

Antonyms

C

clarity

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

I

intelligibility

1 6.5

The ease with which people understand speech or writing

How Understandable

clarity

152 3.0

intelligibility

1 6.5

obscurity

5 7.4

unintelligibility

1 9.9

gibberish

45 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology