unreadableness

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noun

The quality or state of being unreadable.

Similar
illegibilityindecipherabilityinscrutabilityunreadability
Opposite
decipherabilitylegibilityreadabilityreadablenessscrutability
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Meanings

noununreadableness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality or state of being unreadable.

    The text, surviving as a “workshop draft” consisting of “a hodgepodge of scraped out letters, belated additions and cancelled passages,” is known for its idiosyncratic orthography and its unreadableness.

    2010, Katharine Breen, Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400, page 109

    Synonyms: illegibility, indecipherability, inscrutability, unreadability

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality or state of being unreadable.

Similar
illegibilityindecipherabilityinscrutabilityunreadability
Opposite
decipherabilitylegibilityreadabilityreadablenessscrutability

Origin

From unreadable + -ness.

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Cite this entry
APA

unreadableness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreadableness

MLA

“unreadableness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreadableness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreadableness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreadableness.

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