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Unintelligibility

noun

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible. Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency.

Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible.

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"Unintelligibility" Quotes from Famous Books

... her friend out to the loggia, which was the living-room of the family in warm, sunny weather. He announced the two names with elaborate unintelligibility, but Idina at once introduced her companion as Miss Jewett of St. Louis. "We met when I was in America," she explained. "Now she's 'doing' Europe in a few weeks, cramming in enough sightseeing for ...

— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... occasions when an international language would be naturally used when any variation from standard usage would not be a distinct disadvantage as tending to unintelligibility. In short, a neutral language consciously learned as a means of communication with strangers is not on an equal footing with, or exposed to the same influences as, a mother tongue used by people ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... him intently for some time, and after a while she began to ask questions. These were guarded almost to unintelligibility, and yet Keith guessed that they referred to his own secret—the game learned back of the big rock. And so that game grew still more enticing. Even then, however, it did not seem to matter very much except in so far as it was the one thing that ...

— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

Words linked to "Unintelligibility" : nonsensicality, incomprehensibility, incoherency, bunk, hokum, incoherence, meaninglessness, intelligibility, unintelligible, nonsense, word salad