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Meaning of "unintelligibility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY

unintelligibility  [ˌʌnɪnˌtelɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unintelligibility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UNINTELLIGIBILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unintelligibility in the English dictionary

The definition of unintelligibility in the dictionary is the quality of being unintelligible.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNINTELLIGIBILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
inability
ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNINTELLIGIBILITY

unintegrated
unintellectual
unintelligence
unintelligent
unintelligently
unintelligible
unintelligibly
unintended
unintentional
unintentionally
uninterest
uninterested
uninterestedly
uninterestedness
uninteresting
uninterestingly
unintermitted
unintermittedly
unintermitting
uninterpretable

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNINTELLIGIBILITY

agility
credibility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of unintelligibility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unintelligibility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY

Find out the translation of unintelligibility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unintelligibility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unintelligibility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不清晰度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ininteligibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

unintelligibility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unintelligibility
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير وضوح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

непонятность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ininteligibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unintelligibility
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inintelligibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakpahayaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unverständlichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不明瞭さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unintelligibility
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unintelligibility
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unintelligibility
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unintelligibility
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अशिक्षितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlaşılmazlığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inintelligibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unintelligibility
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незрозумілість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neinteligibil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unintelligibility
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unintelligibility
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unintelligibility
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unintelligibility
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unintelligibility

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNINTELLIGIBILITY»

The term «unintelligibility» is normally little used and occupies the 143.102 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNINTELLIGIBILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unintelligibility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unintelligibility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unintelligibility

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNINTELLIGIBILITY»

Discover the use of unintelligibility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unintelligibility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lost in Transliteration: The Tolerance of Unintelligibility ...
By focusing on the development of incorporating Chinese records into Western catalog, the review not only sheds some light on the inherent capability and capacity of each script, it also helps explain why script is by itself a core ...
Jyh-Ming Yang, 2008
2
Kierkegaard and Modern Moral Philosophy: Conceptual ...
We moderns have lost a grasp on some of our most commonly used moral concepts.
Michael A. Cantrell, 2009
3
Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in ...
For example, the authors (Ochs, 1982, 1988, 1991, 1992; Ochs & Schieffelin, 1984) have posited a set of universal responses to unintelligibility under two conditions: The first is where one interlocutor perceives the utterance of another to be ...
Dan Isaac Slobin, Susan Moore Ervin-Tripp, 1996
4
Radical Unintelligibility
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radical Unintelligibility, a term coined by Bernard Lonergan, is the philosophical idea that we can act against our better judgment. We can refuse to choose what we know is worth choosing.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
5
Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics
With this set of arguments about unintelligibility Butler insists, counterintuitively perhaps, that a 'livable life' cannot be presumed from the outset. Here we see a different way of asserting the point about unintelligibility, since the concept of ...
Samuel A Chambers, Terrell Carver, 2008
6
Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations
Surely that personal unintelligibility cannot establish a moral obligation to torture suspects, to send innocents to the death camps, and so on, even if these obligations are (as perhaps they were) conceptually connected to gestapo membership.
A. John Simmons, 2001
7
The Thread of Life
I have already referred to unintelligibility as a mark of the desires that phantasy contains. But I have referred to other features as well. I have referred to the fact that such desires evade testing, that they lose their association with pleasure, and ...
Richard Wollheim, 1986
8
Artless Integrity: Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories
If we consider the role of cultural narratives in defining morality, it is mistaken to consider such unintelligibility a moral failure, an issue I re— turn to later. Unintelligibility may be a moral failure, but sometimes what must be understood is that ...
Susan E. Babbitt, 2002
9
Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the ...
But the point about unintelligibility a5 a practical concern is not that I can make no sense of my past, or my people's past, of my culture's past theoretically understood; it is that I can make no sense of my past, or my people's past, or my culture's ...
Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham, 2012
10
James Joyce. Volume 2: 1928-41
'The Cult of Unintelligibility', Harper's Magazine, clviii (April 1929), 632, 635 [632- 9]. Two tendencies are confused in the literary movement called modernist which ought to be distinguished. They are clearly distinguished for me, because I like ...
Robert Deming, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNINTELLIGIBILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unintelligibility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Doobie v Doobie: More Than a Band Battle
Part of the lure of slang terms is their unintelligibility among the uninitiated. Books could be, and have been, written about slang words related to marijuana. «Entertainment Law Digest, Jul 15»
2
How to create the perfect summer reading list
... the heavy stuff for colder weather, when it's a much easier choice between the groundbreaking unintelligibility of James Joyce and the gloomy, rainy outdoors. «Daily Californian, May 15»
3
Anomalous psych-rocker Jackson Scott releases Sunshine Redux …
UNTOLD VERSES: Although Jackson Scott often manipulates his voice to the point of unintelligibility, he immortalizes his best penned lines with the ... «Mountain Xpress, May 15»
4
Brains on Fire: Dr. Steven Novella Explains, "The Mind Is the Fire of …
The concept of representation of memory in the brain is unintelligible. ... The unintelligibility of memory stored as representation is not ameliorated by invoking ... «Discovery Institute, Dec 14»
5
UK's Bastille translates one big hit to big potential at Patriot Center …
The Bastille ditty also has a chorus so great that it's worth working through founder and front man Dan Smith's delivery, full of British unintelligibility, to sing along: ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
6
Tupac Shakur-inspired musical 'Holler If Ya Hear Me': Theater review
The production is vibrant, raw and rousing, but it self-sabotages with predictability and unintelligibility. Shakur, a trailblazing star of rap and hip hop, was ... «New York Daily News, Jun 14»
7
Future shock(s) at Concord
Gambino”), a celebration of unintelligibility. Formerly the oddball of popular rap music, Future has turned his trademark catalog of auto-tuned croons, vocal jabs, ... «The Chicago Maroon, May 14»
8
Morrissey on Twitter? He'll fit in well with these eight celebrity …
Nearly five years after joining Twitter, former Smiths frontman and controversialist Morrissey has published his first tweet, dripping with mumbled unintelligibility ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
9
Why We Need Monks
This unintelligibility is, in part, a tragic effect of the major loss of religious life over the past half-century. And this countercultural witness is precisely why we need ... «Patheos, Apr 14»
10
Columbia University Fired Two Eminent Public Intellectuals. Here's …
PhD programs, he wrote, “have fostered a culture that glorifies arcane unintelligibility while disdaining impact and audience.” Professors, Kristof pleaded, “don't ... «The Nation., Mar 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Unintelligibility [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/unintelligibility>. Apr 2024 ».
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