UNINTELLIGIBILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Antonym:

intelligibility (the quality of language that is comprehensible)

Derivation:

unintelligible (poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise)

Meaning:

Nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible

Synonyms:

incoherence; incoherency; unintelligibility

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

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

word salad (jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia)

Derivation:

unintelligible (hard or impossible to understand)