Meanings
plural audibilities
- countableuncountableThe quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible.
At a later date in production, the Western Region requested that the two-tone air horns should be placed on the cab roof instead of behind the buffer beam, in order to increase audibility.
1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 191Synonyms: audibleness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible.
More synonyms by meaning
nounquality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- New Latinaudibilitās
- Englishaudibility
Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.
More words from New Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan audibilitat
- audibilitatquality of being heard
Dutch hoorbaarheid
- hoorbaarheidquality of being heard
Estonian kuuldavus
- kuuldavusquality of being heard
German Hörbarkeit
- Hörbarkeitquality of being heard
Greek ακουστικότητα
- ακουστικότητα (akoustikótita)quality of being heard
Hindi श्रव्यता
- श्रव्यता (śravyatā)quality of being heard
Japanese 可聴
- 可聴 (kachō)quality of being heard
Korean 가청도
- 가청도 (gacheongdo)quality of being heard
Russian слы́шимость
- слы́шимость (slýšimostʹ)quality of being heard
Tagalog karinggan
- karingganquality of being heard
Cite this entry
audibility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audibility
“audibility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audibility. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “audibility,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/audibility.
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