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n. -Quality or state of being poorly articulated or enunciated; Quality or state of being drowned out by noise; Quality or state of being not clearly understood or expressed.

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  • Tao exists in invisibility; its function, in unintelligibility.
  • We probably should resign ourselves to mutual unintelligibility.
  • I could see a verdict of not guilty by reason of unintelligibility.
  • The mask of unintelligibility holds out the longest; this is only in
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