Meanings
plural unintelligibilities
- uncountableThe quality or condition of being unintelligible.
1 more example
Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed.
1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112Synonyms: incomprehensibility, unclearness
- countableSomething that is unintelligible.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality or condition of being unintelligible.
antonym(s) of “quality or condition of being unintelligible”
More synonyms by meaning
nounnonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
nounincomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishintelligibility
- Englishunintelligibility
From un- + intelligibility.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan inintel·ligibilitat
- inintel·ligibilitatquality or condition fo being unintelligible
Finnish käsittämättömyys, vaikeaselkoisuus
- käsittämättömyysquality or condition fo being unintelligible
- vaikeaselkoisuusquality or condition fo being unintelligible
French inintelligibilité
- inintelligibilitéquality or condition fo being unintelligible
Irish neamh-intuigtheacht
- neamh-intuigtheachtquality or condition fo being unintelligible
Polish niezrozumiałość
- niezrozumiałośćquality or condition fo being unintelligible
Spanish ininteligibilidad
- ininteligibilidadquality or condition fo being unintelligible
Cite this entry
unintelligibility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintelligibility
“unintelligibility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintelligibility. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unintelligibility,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unintelligibility.
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