illegibility

Definitions

1. 1

   The characteristic or quality of being illegible

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

   • 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.

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• antonymlegibility