Unintelligibility
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality or condition of being unintelligible. uncountable
"Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed."
- 2 incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible wordnet
- 3 Something that is unintelligible. countable
- 4 nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible wordnet
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More examples"Some of them have, in fact, given them a theoretical elaboration which for subtlety, refinement, and elegance need make no apologies to the older economics, and which remains faithful to older theorizing in at least one respect, that the tradition of unintelligibility to the layman is scrupulously observed."
Etymology
From un- + intelligibility.
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