legibility

English

Noun

legibility (countable and uncountable, plural legibilities)

1. The property of being legible or easily readable.

   Synonym: readability

   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.

   • 1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter‎^[1]:

     The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.

Antonyms

• illegibility

Translations

property of being legible or easily readable — see also readability

• Bulgarian: четливост f (četlivost)
• Catalan: llegibilitat f
• Czech: čitelnost f
• Dutch: leesbaarheid (nl) f
• Finnish: luettavuus (fi)
• French: lisibilité (fr) f
• German: Lesbarkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: olvashatóság (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leselighet m or f

• Portuguese: legibilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: legibilitate f
• Russian: разборчивость (ru) (razborčivostʹ)
• Spanish: legibilidad f
• Swedish: läsbarhet (sv)
• Turkish: okunaklılık

Further reading

• legibility on Wikipedia.Wikipedia