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audibility

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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1

noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: audibleness

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: audibleness

Antonyms: inaudibility

Broader terms: perceptibility

History

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: audibilitat — quality of being heard
  • Dutch: hoorbaarheid — quality of being heard
  • Galician: audibilidade — quality of being heard
  • German: Hörbarkeit — quality of being heard
  • Greek: ακουστικότητα (akoustikótita) — quality of being heard
  • Japanese: 可聴 (kachō) — quality of being heard
  • Korean: 가청도 (gacheongdo) — quality of being heard
  • Manx: so-chlashtynys — quality of being heard
  • Russian: слы́шимость (slýšimostʹ) — quality of being heard
  • Tagalog: karinggan — quality of being heard