Illegibility

Definitions

The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer⟳ he wrote.”

““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).”

“I passed the time by adding to the illegibilities in my diary.”

“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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