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visibility

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti//
  • United Kingdom//ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ə.ti//
  • United Kingdom//ˌvɪz.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti//

The condition of being visible.

noun

  1. 1

    The condition of being visible.

  2. 2

    The degree to which things may be seen.

    The visibility from that angle was good.

  3. 3

    The scope within which a variable, function, etc. is able to be accessed directly.

  4. 4

    obsoleteSomething worthy of being seen; a sight.

    ‘Sir, I have seen all the visibilities of Paris, and around it; but to have formed an acquaintance with the people there, would have required more time than I could stay.’

Etymology

From Middle French visibilité, from Late Latin visibilitas; equivalent to visible + -ity.

Forms

plural
visibilities
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).