INCOMPREHENSIBILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being incomprehensible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("incomprehensibility" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incomprehensibility"):

inscrutability (the quality of being impossible to investigate)

illegibility (the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered)

impenetrability; impenetrableness (incomprehensibility by virtue of being too dense to understand)

noise (incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks)

opacity; opaqueness (incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning)

abstruseness; obscureness; obscurity; reconditeness (the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand)

unintelligibility (incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible)

unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)

Antonym:

comprehensibility (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

Derivation:

incomprehensible (difficult to understand)

incomprehensible (incapable of being explained or accounted for)