Intelligibleness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being intelligible. uncountable

    "A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete."

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"A defect running through his otherwise admirable modes of instruction, as it did through all his modes of thought, was that of trusting too much to the intelligibleness of the abstract, when not embodied in the concrete."

Etymology

From intelligible + -ness.

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