ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Illegibility

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Illegibility is a noun meaning The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.

Meaning

The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.

Example Sentences

I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
And on the back endpaper of the Collins Clear-Type Shakespeare, a work of fatiguing illegibility, he wrote the names in large letters, as though his succession had already been settled.
“Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).

Word Forms

Antonyms for illegibility

Common opposites include legibility, readability.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include illegibleness, unreadability, nonreadability, indecipherableness, legibility, unreadableness.

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