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UNINTELLIGIBILITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unintelligibility" is a kind of...):
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Antonym:
intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)
Derivation:
unintelligible (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
Synonyms:
incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("unintelligibility" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unintelligibility"):
word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)
Derivation:
unintelligible (hard or impossible to understand)
