"legibility" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: legibilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} legibility (countable and uncountable, plural legibilities)
  1. The property of being legible or easily readable. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: readability Translations (property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability): четливост (četlivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), llegibilitat [feminine] (Catalan), čitelnost [feminine] (Czech), leesbaarheid [feminine] (Dutch), luettavuus (Finnish), lisibilité [feminine] (French), Lesbarkeit [feminine] (German), olvashatóság (Hungarian), leselighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), legibilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), legibilitate [feminine] (Romanian), разборчивость (razborčivostʹ) (Russian), legibilidad [feminine] (Spanish), läsbarhet (Swedish), okunaklılık (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-legibility-en-noun-3OHa0F5t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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        {
          "text": "The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter",
          "text": "The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.",
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "četlivost",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "четливост"
        },
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "llegibilitat"
        },
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "leesbaarheid"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "word": "luettavuus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lisibilité"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Lesbarkeit"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "word": "olvashatóság"
        },
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "leselighet"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "legibilitate"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "razborčivostʹ",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "word": "разборчивость"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "legibilidad"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "word": "läsbarhet"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
          "word": "okunaklılık"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "legibility"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "četlivost",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "четливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "llegibilitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "čitelnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leesbaarheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "word": "luettavuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lisibilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Lesbarkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "word": "olvashatóság"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "leselighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legibilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legibilitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razborčivostʹ",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "word": "разборчивость"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "legibilidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "word": "läsbarhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability",
      "word": "okunaklılık"
    }
  ],
  "word": "legibility"
}

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