Synonyms of intelligibility

intelligibility

noun

as in comprehensibility

Related Words

• comprehensibility
• legibility
• readability
• directness
• openness
• forthrightness
• straightforwardness
• readableness
• incisiveness
• clarity
• incision
• perspicuity
• lucidity
• explicitness
• lucidness
• simplicity
• perspicuousness

Dissimilar Words

• ambiguity
• opacity
• obscurity
• unclarity
• unintelligibility
• obliquity
• opaqueness
• incomprehensibility
• inscrutability
• equivocation
• obliqueness
• impenetrability
• indistinctness
• indirectness
• ambiguousness
• incoherence
• obscureness
• dimness
• vagueness
• deviousness
• equivocalness
• fuzziness
• disjointedness
• inscrutableness
• muddiness
• faintness
• incomprehensibleness
• unintelligibleness
• circuitousness
• nebulousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intelligibility

By contrast, fashionable abstraction may refuse beauty, intelligibility, or civic meaning, yet remain thin and dependent on institutional explanation. — Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026

What that translates to for audiences is better intelligibility — words that land rather than wash — and a cleaner overall mix, because the engineer is no longer spending mental and technical energy fighting unwanted signal at the source. — Dave Brooks, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

If wrestling is so watchable thanks to its intelligibility—every appearance, utterance, and movement is so extreme that the point of the story cannot be misinterpreted—then the same can be said of many scenarios in KUWTK. — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026

Speaking of clarity, these new headphones have been designed by Sennheiser’s in-house acoustics team and are tuned for vocal intelligibility, while still providing plenty of bass response. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026

Research has also shown pupillometry to be a sensitive, objective correlate of speech intelligibility and mental strain. — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2026