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Meaning of "unreadability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNREADABILITY

unreadability  [ʌnˌriːdəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNREADABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unreadability 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 UNREADABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unreadability in the English dictionary

The first definition of unreadability in the dictionary is the condition of being difficult or tedious to read. Other definition of unreadability is the condition of being illegible or undecipherable. Unreadability is also the condition of being difficult to tell what a person is thinking or feeling.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNREADABILITY


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 UNREADABILITY

unreachable
unreached
unreactive
unread
unreadable
unreadableness
unreadably
unreadily
unreadiness
unready
unreal
unrealisable
unrealised
unrealism
unrealistic
unrealistically
unreality
unrealizable
unrealize
unrealized

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNREADABILITY

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 unreadability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unreadability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNREADABILITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

unreadability
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ilegibilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

unreadability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unreadability
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unreadability
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unreadability
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ilegibilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unreadability
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

illisibilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak boleh dibaca
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unlesbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unreadability
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unreadability
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unreadability
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unreadability
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unreadability
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न वाचण्यायोग्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unreadability
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

illeggibilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieczytelność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unreadability
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unreadability
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδυναμία ανάγνωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unreadability
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

omöjlig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uleselig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unreadability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREADABILITY»

The term «unreadability» is used very little and occupies the 176.012 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNREADABILITY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNREADABILITY»

Discover the use of unreadability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unreadability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan
calculation to the incalculability of interrupted filiation — this immediate unreadability is also the resource that permits the poem to bless (perhaps, only perhaps), to give, to give to think, to give cause to think, to give the possibility of weighing ...
Jacques Derrida, Thomas Dutoit, Outi Pasanen, 2005
2
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
A !": Unreadability. in. The. Confidence-Man. The Confidence-Man, Herman Melville's last novel, was a critical and commercial failure when it was published in 1857. Critics panned it as an unreadable book. The reviewer in the New York ...
Robert Steven Levine, Robert S. Levine, 1998
3
What's The Worst Thing You Can Do To Shakespeare?
We then rewind the clock to 1983, as the soontoend ColdWar raised increasingly apocalyptic tonesin literary theory and “nuclear criticism,” to stare the “manifest danger” of Shakespeare's irrelevance and unreadability in the face. Along the ...
Richard Burt, Julian Yates, 2013
4
Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of a Postmodern ...
TEACHING THEOLOGY Exposure tothese researches of Foucault opensaspecific kind of spiritual discipline in teachingforthe theological educator, by which Imean learning toteachso astohonor a “plotof unreadability.” 44“Plot” inits ...
Tom Beaudoin, 2008
5
Renaissance Drama 40: What is Renaissance Drama?
sometimes delirious use of the rhetoric of unreadability. We then rewind the clock to 1983, as the soon-to-end Cold War paradoxically raised increasingly apocalyptic tones in literary theory and “nuclear criticism,” to stare the “manifest danger” ...
Jeffrey Masten, William N. West, 2012
6
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2006
that language is always absolutely random, but it is the case that we can never be sure that it is not.10 Unreadability appears in different versions. One sort of unreadabil- ity pertains to the incompatibility of readings, as seen in the clash ...
Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Hermann Deuser, 2006
7
England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, ...
Tilottama Rajan, "Mary Shelley's Mathilda: Melancholy and the Political Economy of Romanticism," Studies in the Novel 26 (1994): 43—68; Mary Jacobus, "Guilt That Wants a Name: Mary Shelley's Unreadability," Psychoanalysis and the ...
Julie A. Carlson, 2007
8
The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental ...
Presuming that de Man is correct in the paradigm he offers “for all texts,” extending his concept of unreadability to the discourses of the avantgardes (and particularly to the narrative history of the avant-gardes) acknowledges that only a matter ...
James M. Harding, 2013
9
Legacies of Paul de Man
The possibility that reading involves "a kind of disconnecting" also occupies Jan Mieszkowski in "Reading, Begging, Paul de Man," as he addresses himself to the problem of what "unreadability" is. Can unreadabil- ity be read? Taking as his ...
Marc Redfield, 2007
10
Diaspora and Exile
What is relevant is to remark that such symbolic indeterminacy is closely linked to the unreadability both of the hieroglyphic gorges and the "indentures in the surface of the marl" (pp. 223-225). Jean Ricardou compared the strange water of  ...
Lucía Mora González, Bernhard Dietz Guerrero, Asunción Sánchez Villalón, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNREADABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unreadability is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How Merkel helped to fuel the Greek crisis
Her trademark style – an unreadability and unwillingness to be pinned down – may be an asset in German politics. But it meant that she allowed the Greek crisis ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
'I identify as black,' ex-NAACP president Rachel Dolezal says
Aside from the subtitle of this article being painfully ungrammatical to the point of unreadability, this is a tale of a person having to sleep in the bed that she made. «Hamilton Spectator, Jun 15»
3
Try Reading This Font And You'll Better Understand What Dyslexia …
It's just the rough average of the sweet spot he reached, trying to reduce Helvetica to a median between total unreadability and just enough visual information to ... «Co.Design, Jun 15»
4
On recording
The unreadability of other people's musings — their chicken scratch, their questionable syntax, their strange fixations — is the notebook's ultimate defense ... «The Michigan Daily, May 15»
5
Smart tugs at the heart
... titillated, excitedly opening the paper napkin -- only to find out, to his dismay, that the last three numbers of her mobile number were smudged to unreadability! «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Nov 14»
6
Edtech Companies Pledge to Protect Student Data Privacy
As next steps in the conversation, he believes companies--and this pledge--must address the unreadability of many terms of service, the need for an annotated ... «EdSurge, Oct 14»
7
Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
... by page 26 -- at least that's where they stopped highlighting the text -- prompting the Journal reporter to dub the measure of unreadability the "Piketty Index.". «Barron's, Aug 14»
8
Eater NY On The Road: Do Hickster Restaurants Exist?
The sign on the side has faded to unreadability, so I had to drive by a few times to realize this teetering dilapidated structure was indeed Table on Ten (the ... «Eater NY, Aug 14»
9
Roxane Gay: 'Bad Feminist,' Real Person
"I think it should be unreadable or unwatchable when you talk about sexual violence," Gay says. "So I tried to write to that point of unreadability, where you have ... «NPR, Jul 14»
10
Send gay employees to Russia to change attitudes, Lord Browne says
However Lord Browne said being forced to hide his sexuality allowed him to develop a 'reserve' and 'unreadability' that helped him succeed in business. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»

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