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Definition of Legibility
1. Noun. Distinctness that makes perception easy.
Generic synonyms: Distinctness, Sharpness
Derivative terms: Discernable
2. Noun. A quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read.
Category relationships: Handwriting
Generic synonyms: Comprehensibility, Understandability
Antonyms: Illegibility
Derivative terms: Legible, Readable
Definition of Legibility
1. n. The quality of being legible; legibleness.
Definition of Legibility
1. Noun. The property that makes legible or easily readable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legibility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Legibility
Literary usage of Legibility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The principles and practice of common-school education by James Currie (1861)
"Elements of Good Writing—legibility.—The tests of good writing are three : (1.
... Script-hand is a compromise; we sacrifice legibility to some extent to ..."
2. The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman (1917)
"EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE OF legibility INGE print is meant primarily to be read,
the first law of its being is legibility. As a general principle this must be ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"A REMARK ON THE legibility OF PRINTED TYPES By FM URBAN Miss BE Roethlein published
in ... on the relative legibility of different faces of printing types. ..."
4. The Hand Book of Standard Or American Phonography by Andrew Jackson Graham (1902)
"legibility, in addition to good penmanship, depends chiefly upon the following-specified
conditions : 1. Writing the consonants, so far as possible, ..."
5. The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1819)
"It may be washed with a hair pencil. 797. Method of recovering the legibility of
decayed writings. The best method of restoring legibility to decayed ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The characters demanded iu u good plant label are legibility, convenience,
durability and a reasonable cheapness. The purposes for which labels are needed ..."
7. Advertising: A Practical Presentation of the Principles Underlying the by Harry Tipper, George Burton Hotchkiss (1914)
"legibility. — legibility of characters is based upon combinations of straight and
... The ordinary forms of Roman type are striking examples of legibility, ..."
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