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English
Noun
legibility (countable and uncountable, plural legibilities)
- 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: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.
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Translations
property of being legible or easily readable
— see also readability
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