illegibility
Noun
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Noun
illegibility
- The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 15,
- “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).
- 1937, Kenneth Gandar-Dower, The Spotted Lion, Chapter Four, p. 144,
- I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 4,
- 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.
- The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 15,
- German: Unlesbarkeit
- Russian: нечита́емость
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