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Unintelligibility

Definition: Unintelligibility

Unintelligibility

Noun

1. Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible.

2. Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unintelligibility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references)


Synonyms: Unintelligibility

Synonyms: incoherence (n), incoherency (n). (additional references)
Antonym: intelligibility (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unintelligibility

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Obscurity

Noun: obscurity; (unintelligibility); involution; hard words; ambiguity; unintelligibleness; vagueness; inexactness; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); darkness of meaning.

Secret

Problem; (question); paradox; (difficulty); unintelligibility; terra incognita; (ignorance).

Unintelligibility

Noun: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness; Adjective: obscurity; ambiguity; doubtful meaning; uncertainty; perplexity; (confusion); spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification; (concealment); latency; transcendentalism.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unintelligibility

Specialty definitions using "unintelligibility": Hierarchical Music Specification Language. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unintelligibility

"Unintelligibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unintelligibility" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unintelligibility

Language Translations for "unintelligibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Unverständlichkeit (incomprehensibility, obscureness, obscurity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

intelligibilityunay

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính khó hiểu (weirdness), tính không thể hiểu được (fathomlessness, inconceivability, inconceivableness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unintelligibility

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-i-i-i-i-l-l-l-n-n-t-t-u-y"

-2 letters: intelligibility.

-3 letters: unintelligibly.

-4 letters: ineligibility.

-5 letters: illegibility, intelligibly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unintelligibility


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 69 6E 74 65 6C 6C 69 67 69 62 69 6C 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ..    -.    -    .    .-..    .-..    ..    --.    ..    -...    ..    .-..    ..    -    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101001 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01100010 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#103 &#105 &#98 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0069 006E 0074 0065 006C 006C 0069 0067 0069 0062 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580758086717878757375687578758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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