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unintelligibility noun[ U ] (alsoun-intelligibility)uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˌtel.ɪ.dʒəˈbɪl.ə.ti/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˌtel.ə.dʒəˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/(alsounintelligibleness, un-intelligibleness) the quality of being impossible to understand: The effects of the condition on speech can range from slight slurring to total unintelligibility. Blake's work was described by a contemporary critic as "a farrago of nonsense, unintelligibleness, and egregious vanity". At times on the recording there is unintelligibility, resulting from the participants talking over one another. Some of his behaviour may strike even the most sympathetic of readers as inexplicable to the point of unintelligibility. There are many factors that contribute significantly to the mutual unintelligibility of different dialects. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Difficult to understand abstruse abstrusely ambiguity ambiguous ambiguously esoteric esoterically fathomless fathomlessly garble it's all Greek to meidiom labyrinthine lost non-intuitive obscurely unreadable verbiage verbosely verbosity wasted on someoneidiom |