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UNINTELLIGIBILITY

Dictionary entry overview: What does unintelligibility mean?

• UNINTELLIGIBILITY (noun)
The noun UNINTELLIGIBILITY has 2 senses:

1. nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
2. incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

Familiarity information: UNINTELLIGIBILITY used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNINTELLIGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

unintelligibility; incoherence; incoherency

Hypernyms ("unintelligibility" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unintelligibility"):

word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unintelligibility" is a kind of...):

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Antonym:

intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)

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