illegibility

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illegibility (countable and uncountable, plural illegibilities)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
    The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “chapter 15”, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
      “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, chapter 4, in The Spotted Lion, page 144:
      I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.
    • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 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.

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