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"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"
}
],
"word": "readability"
}
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