unintelligibility

Other forms: unintelligibilities

Definitions of unintelligibility
  1. noun
    incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
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    antonyms:
    intelligibility
    the quality of language that is comprehensible
    type of:
    incomprehensibility
    the quality of being incomprehensible
  2. noun
    nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
    synonyms: incoherence, incoherency
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    types:
    word salad
    jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia
    type of:
    bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
    a message that seems to convey no meaning
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