"readability" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɹiːdəˈbɪlɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-readability.wav [Southern-England] Forms: readabilities [plural]
Etymology: readable + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|readable|ity}} readable + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} readability (countable and uncountable, plural readabilities)
  1. The property of being capable of being read; legibility. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (property of being capable of being read; legibility): четливост (četlivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), llegibilitat [feminine] (Catalan), 易讀 (Chinese Mandarin), 易读 (yìdú) (Chinese Mandarin), 可讀 (Chinese Mandarin), 可读 (kědú) (Chinese Mandarin), čitelnost [feminine] (Czech), leesbaarheid [feminine] (Dutch), luettavuus (Finnish), lisibilité [feminine] (French), Lesbarkeit [feminine] (German), olvashatóság (Hungarian), kebolehbacaan (Malay), lesbarhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lesbarheit [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), czytelność [feminine] (Polish), удобочита́емость (udobočitájemostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), чёткость (čótkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), разбо́рчивость (razbórčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), чита́бельность (čitábelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), приго́дность для чте́ния (prigódnostʹ dlja čténija) [feminine] (Russian), legibilidad [feminine] (Spanish), läsbarhet (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-readability-en-noun-7sz3CzEu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 75 25 Disambiguation of 'property of being capable of being read; legibility': 93 7
  2. The property of being easy or engaging to read. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (property of being easy or engaging to read): увлекателност (uvlekatelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), llegibilitat [feminine] (Catalan), 易讀 (Chinese Mandarin), 易读 (yìdú) (Chinese Mandarin), 可讀性 (Chinese Mandarin), 可读性 (kědúxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), čtivost [feminine] (Czech), leesbaarheid [feminine] (Dutch), luettavuus (Finnish), Lesbarkeit [feminine] (German), kebolehbacaan (Malay), чита́бельность (čitábelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), приго́дность для чте́ния (prigódnostʹ dlja čténija) [feminine] (Russian), lättlästhet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-readability-en-noun-HSgp5oSC Disambiguation of 'property of being easy or engaging to read': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: readable, unreadable, readableness

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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "uvlekatelnost",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "увлекателност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "llegibilitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "易讀"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yìdú",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "易读"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "可讀性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kědúxìng",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "可读性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "čtivost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leesbaarheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "luettavuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lesbarkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "word": "kebolehbacaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čitábelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чита́бельность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prigódnostʹ dlja čténija",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "приго́дность для чте́ния"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "property of being easy or engaging to read",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lättlästhet"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "readability"
  ],
  "word": "readability"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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