as in incomprehensibility
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Recent Examples of unintelligibility
Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk.
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Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintelligibility
Noun
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But probabilities are less sexy than proclamations, ambiguities less attractive than assurances—or so the rising number of storm-hyping accounts on social media seem to suggest.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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Detectives eventually identify one man as a likely suspect, though he is ultimately not charged, resulting in ambiguity that continues to this day.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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There was no vagueness, even to try to create leverage for a new contract amid a good season.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The nascent anti-smartphones movement in America is decidedly nonpartisan, for the most part, and this contributes to its potential and also to the vagueness of its outlines.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Unintelligibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligibility. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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