intelligibilitás

Intelligibilitás, or intelligibility in Hungarian, denotes the quality of being understandable or comprehensible. The term is used across several domains, including philosophy, linguistics, and cognitive science. Its etymology traces to Latin intelligibilitas, through European languages into Hungarian, and it is closely related to the English concept of intelligibility or comprehensibility.

In philosophy, intelligibilitás refers to the degree to which phenomena, theories, or arguments can be grasped by the human mind. It concerns the accessibility of concepts, the coherence of explanations, and the ability of reasoning to make sense of observed reality. The notion is often contrasted with obscurity or opacity and is tied to the demands of justification and interpretation.

In linguistics and speech science, intelligibilitás is the property of language that allows listeners to understand spoken messages. Speech intelligibility depends on factors such as articulation, accent, rate, prosody, and the acoustic environment. It is commonly assessed through listener-evaluation tests and objective measures of speech transmission.

In general usage, intelligibilitás also appears in discussions of text readability, pedagogy, and user-interface design, where the goal is to maximize clarity and ease of understanding for the target audience.

See also: intelligibility, comprehensibility, readability.