unintelligibility

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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. Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.
    Lana Lin September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vagueness of the language left plenty of room for interpretation and anxiety.
    Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The book is padded full of the thin, present-tense prose beloved of young writers, who mistake its vagueness for urgency.
    Robert Rubsam, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Unintelligibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligibility. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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