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Legibility vs Manuscript - What's the difference?

legibility | manuscript |

As nouns the difference between legibility and manuscript

is that legibility is the property that makes legible or easily readable while manuscript is a book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

As an adjective manuscript is

handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

legibility

English

Noun

(wikipedia legibility) (-)
  • The property that makes legible or easily readable.
  • 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.

    Antonyms

    * illegibility

    manuscript

    Adjective

    (-)
  • handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts , […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
  • Abbreviations

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    Derived terms

    * manuscriptal * manuscription

    Synonyms

    * handwrit * autograph * handwriting