comprehensibility
Ease of understanding
Comprehensibility is the quality of being understandable.
A text, explanation, or speaker has comprehensibility when others can grasp the meaning without excessive effort: The comprehensibility of the instructions made assembly easy.
The word often appears in discussions of readability, accessibility, or clear communication.
Clearness of mind
- intelligibilityQuality of being understood
- readabilityEase of understanding text
- legibilityClearness of text
- coherenceLogical internal consistency
explicitness · perspicuity · distinctness · precision · articulateness · conciseness · plainness · simplicity
Clear vocal expression
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
- dictionChoice of words
enunciation · verbalization · discourse · explanation · exposition · conveyance · phrasing · wording
Mental comprehension of something
- graspSeize or understand
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
- discernmentKeen perception and judgment
recognition · insight · awareness · cognizance · conception · absorption · assimilation · learning
Interpreting unknown scripts
- translationConverting between languages
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
- paraphraseRestatement in new words
gloss · annotation · decoding · parsing · construal · exegesis · hermeneutics · contextualization
lucidity
Clearness of mind
- intelligibilityQuality of being understood
- readabilityEase of understanding text
- legibilityClearness of text
coherence · explicitness · perspicuity · distinctness · precision · articulateness · conciseness · plainness · simplicity · transparency
articulation
Clear vocal expression
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
diction · enunciation · verbalization · discourse · explanation · exposition · conveyance · phrasing · wording · formulation
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- graspSeize or understand
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- perceptionMental interpretation of stimuli
discernment · recognition · insight · awareness · cognizance · conception · absorption · assimilation · learning · sense-making
decipherment
Interpreting unknown scripts
- translationConverting between languages
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- elucidationAct of explaining clearly
paraphrase · gloss · annotation · decoding · parsing · construal · exegesis · hermeneutics · contextualization · commentary
- clarityclearness, clear, obvious, simplification, concise
- coherence wordsunity, coherence, cohesion, consistency, continuity
comprehensibilityincomprehensibility
Being impossible to grasp
unintelligibility · inscrutability · impenetrability · bafflement · unfathomability
comprehensibilityambiguity
Openness to multiple interpretations
murkiness · vagueness · abstruseness · obfuscation · convolutedness
comprehend, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensible, incomprehensible, comprehensively, incomprehension, comprehensiveness, incomprehensibly