audibility

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin audibilitās.

Noun

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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.

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