unintelligibleness

noun

as in unintelligibility

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  1. unintelligibility
  2. ambiguity
  3. incomprehensibility
  4. vagueness
Noun
  • 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
Definition of unintelligibility
Noun
  • Nevertheless, across multiple administrations, the United States retained deliberate ambiguity on this front.
    — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Leaders Must Establish Clarity Around AI's Boundaries A significant driver of AI-induced burnout is ambiguity.
    — Khadim Batti, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This incomprehensibility was in no small part due to the way Turing had incorporated the conventions of the tape reader into the system software.
    — Alan Turing, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2017
Definition of incomprehensibility
Noun
  • Declare the state's rules void for vagueness under the 14th Amendment's Due Process Clause.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026
  • But that sort of vagueness is hardly unusual for a campaign, and Platner provided enough detail to communicate the overall shape of his program.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of vagueness
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“Unintelligibleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligibleness. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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