unintelligibleness

noun

as in unintelligibility

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  1. unintelligibility
  2. ambiguity
  3. incomprehensibility
  4. vagueness
Noun
  • Breen’s films are a curious blend of unintelligibility and over-explication.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of unintelligibility
Noun
  • Third, where do people need to remain accountable, particularly when AI is interpreting ambiguity or influencing a consequential decision?
    — Gregg Aldana, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Unlike a sheer dress or exposed lingerie layered beneath another garment, there was little ambiguity about what was functioning as Tyla’s top.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 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
  • Word-of-mouth dies from vagueness more often than from distrust.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • What erodes trust is vagueness, backtracking and the sense that someone is managing you rather than leveling with you.
    — Aleeza Gerstein, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of vagueness
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“Unintelligibleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintelligibleness. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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