unintelligibility

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ intelligibility.

Noun

unintelligibility (countable and uncountable, plural unintelligibilities)

1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being unintelligible.
   • 1958, Jacob Viner, The Long View and the Short, page 112:

     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. (countable) Something that is unintelligible.

Synonyms

• (quality or condition of being unintelligible): incomprehensibility, unclearness

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “quality or condition of being unintelligible”): intelligibility, comprehensibility

Translations

quality or condition fo being unintelligible

• Catalan: inintel·ligibilitat f
• Finnish: käsittämättömyys (fi), vaikeaselkoisuus (fi)
• French: inintelligibilité (fr)
• Galician: inintelixibilidade (gl)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: neamh-intuigtheacht f
• Polish: niezrozumiałość f
• Spanish: ininteligibilidad f

References

• unintelligibility in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.