"audibility" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: audibilities [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās. Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|audibilitās}} New Latin audibilitās Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} audibility (countable and uncountable, plural audibilities)
  1. The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: audibleness Translations (quality of being heard): audibilidade [feminine] (Galician), ακουστικότητα (akoustikótita) [feminine] (Greek), so-chlashtynys [masculine] (Manx), слы́шимость (slýšimostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), karinggan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-audibility-en-noun-S0Ro7h06 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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