What is another word for unreadability?

Pronunciation: [ʌnɹˌiːdəbˈɪlɪti] (IPA)

Unreadability refers to the level of difficulty when it comes to understanding written content. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe this concept including incomprehensibility, unintelligibility, gibberish, obscurity, and opacity. Incomprehensibility refers to the inability to comprehend or understand a written language. Unintelligibility is often used to describe languages that are difficult to comprehend or understand due to differences in the patterns of speech. Gibberish often refers to language that is difficult to understand or nonsensical. Obscurity and opacity describe language that is difficult to understand due to its complexity or ambiguity. All of these synonyms point to the idea that certain types of written content can be difficult to understand and may require additional effort to decipher.

What are the hypernyms for Unreadability?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Unreadability

  • He bought a bird in its own cage, with a sheet over it so no one could see the bird and the bird couldn't see anyone, and the whole thing was a secret bird... Everything he said was tinged with the unreadability of someone who would bring a bird on cruise ship.
    Daniel Handler
  • While clearly a masterpiece, suffers from one fairly serious flaw — that of outright unreadability. This reviewer should know, because he has just read it. … Looming like one of the Don's chimerical adversaries, it is a giant...But the giant has a giant weight problem and is elderly, and soft-brained. Reading can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 — the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that could do.
    Miguel de Cervantes
  • While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability. This reviewer should know, because he has just read it. The book bristles with beauties, charm, sublime comedy; it is also, for long stretches (approaching about 75 per cent of the whole), inhumanly dull.... Reading can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 - the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right: not tears of relief but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that could do.
    Martin Amis

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