"illegibility" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: illegibilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} illegibility (countable and uncountable, plural illegibilities)
  1. The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read): нечетливост (nečetlivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), Unlesbarkeit [feminine] (German), olvashatatlanság (Hungarian), ilegibilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), нечита́емость (nečitájemostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), okunaksızlık (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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