unintelligibilities

States of being unclear

Things that cannot be understood or made sense of.

The word is the plural of unintelligibility, which names the quality of being impossible to comprehend—whether due to poor audio, impenetrable jargon, or sheer incoherence.

The recording was full of static and unintelligibilities.

Legal documents are notorious for their unintelligibilities.

obscurity

incomprehensibility

Being impossible to grasp

abstruseness · crypticness · murkiness · indecipherability · unfathomability · illegibility · incoherence · gibberish · gobbledygook · garble

complexity

intricacy

State of elaborate complexity

density · knottiness · tortuosity · labyrinthine · convoluted · tangled · Byzantine · impenetrable · overwrought · elaborate

confusion

bewilderment

State of being baffled

mystification · befuddlement · disorientation · puzzlement · noncomprehension · misunderstanding · miscommunication · disconnect · breakdown · failure

Opposites
comprehensibility

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Qualities of being understandable

understandabilities · clarities · coherences · transparencies · accessibilities

clarity of expression

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States of transparency

eloquences · straightforwardness · precisions · plain speech · transparencies

Family

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