"illegibility" meaning in English

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Noun

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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          "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
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          "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
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      "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "roman": "nečitájemostʹ",
      "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
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      "sense": "the quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read",
      "word": "okunaksızlık"
    }
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  "word": "illegibility"
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