intelligibility

Roget category 518

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#518. Intelligibility

noun

intelligibility — clearness, explicitness etc. adj. — lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity — legibility, plain speaking etc. (manifestation) 525 — precision etc. 494 — phonanta synetoisy [Gr.] — a word to the wise.

verb

be intelligible etc. adj. — speak for itself, speak volumes — tell its own tale, lie on the surface.
render intelligible etc. adj. — popularize, simplify, clear up — elucidate etc. (explain) 522.
understand, comprehend, take, take in — catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out — see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way — enter into the ideas of — come to an understanding.

adjective

intelligible — clear, clear as day, clear as noonday — lucid — perspicuous, transpicuous^† — luminous, transparent.
easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized.
plain, distinct, explicit — positive — definite etc. (precise) 494.
graphic — expressive etc. (meaning) 516 — illustrative etc. (explanatory) 522.
unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable etc. (manifest) 525 — unconfused — legible, recognizable — obvious etc. 525.

adverb

in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.

phrase

he that runs may read etc. (manifest) 525.

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