audibility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.

Noun

audibility (countable and uncountable, plural audibilities)

1. The quality of being heard or understood; the degree to which a thing is audible.

   Synonym: audibleness

   • 1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 191:

     At a later date in production, the Western Region requested that the two-tone air horns should be placed on the cab roof instead of behind the buffer beam, in order to increase audibility.

Antonyms

• inaudibility
• quietness
• silence

Translations

quality of being heard

• Galician: audibilidade (gl) f
• Greek: ακουστικότητα (el) f (akoustikótita)
• Japanese: 可聴 (kachō)
• Manx: so-chlashtynys m
• Russian: слы́шимость (ru) f (slýšimostʹ)
• Tagalog: karinggan