unreadableness
English
editEtymology
editFrom unreadable + -ness.
Noun
editunreadableness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being unreadable.
- 2010, Katharine Breen, Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400, page 109:
- The text, surviving as a “workshop draft” consisting of “a hodgepodge of scraped out letters, belated additions and cancelled passages,” is known for its idiosyncratic orthography and its unreadableness.