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Readability vs Intelligibility - What's the difference?

readability | intelligibility |

As nouns the difference between readability and intelligibility

is that readability is the property of being capable of being read; legibility while intelligibility is that which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.

readability

English

Noun

  • The property of being capable of being read; legibility.
  • The property of being easy or engaging to read.
    • The book had a clever plot, but lacked readability .

    Related terms

    * readable * unreadable * readableness

    intelligibility

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia intelligibility) (-)
  • That which is intelligible; the degree to which something is intelligible.
  • The quality of recorded speech of every word being understandable.

    • Synonyms

    clearness, explicitness, lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity, legibility, plain speaking.