intelligibility
pronunciation
How to pronounce intelligibility in British English:
UK [ɪnˌtelɪdʒə'bɪlətɪ]
How to pronounce intelligibility in American English:
US [ɪnˌtelɪdʒə'bɪlətɪ]
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- Noun:
- the quality of language that is comprehensible
Word Origin
- intelligibility (n.)
- 1670s, from intelligible + -ity.
Example
- 1. That your interest was in speed , not intelligibility .
- 2. He is resolutely relaxed about usage , understanding that correctitude and intelligibility are not the same .
- 3. The influence of monotone on mandarin lexical identification and speech intelligibility .
- 4. Telephone speech bandwidth extension is researched to get wideband speech and to improve its intelligibility and naturalness , without increasing extra costs .
- 5. What happened in the past few days is totally beyond her intelligibility .