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- noun The property of being impossible to
read . - noun The property of being unfit for
reading .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a theme, in other words, unreadability is thoroughly readable, and is thus, paradoxically, a comforting distraction from the actual puzzles and discontinuities that reading, as a praxis, endlessly encounters.
Introduction 2005
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To purge registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials used a wide range of pretexts, from "unreadability" to changes in a voter's signature.
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To purge registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials used a wide range of pretexts, from "unreadability" to changes in a voter's signature.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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In this way, the "unreadability" of the opening sentence
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"Reading, Begging, Paul de Man," as he addresses himself to the problem of what "unreadability" is.
Introduction 2005
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To purge registration rolls and discard ballots, partisan election officials used a wide range of pretexts, from 'unreadability' to changes in a voter's signature.
Salem-News.com 2008
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"unreadability" of her narrative, as it is manifested in Mathilda's alienation from the poetry she cites and the literary world it embodies as personified in
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Given the proverbial "unreadability" of Joyce, he makes a good candidate for this treatment, since in the backs of their minds many readers must be thinking, "Pfft!
For Blooms-Boxing-Day Richard Nokes 2005
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Given the proverbial "unreadability" of Joyce, he makes a good candidate for this treatment, since in the backs of their minds many readers must be thinking, "Pfft!
Archive 2005-06-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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The Great Books were in fact icons of unreadability – 32,000 pages of tiny, double-column, eye-straining type … the translations of the great works were not particularly modern.
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