visibility

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, /ˌvɪz.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/, /ˌvɪz.ɪˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/

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Noun

visibility (countable and uncountable, plural visibilities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being visible.
2. (countable) The degree to which things may be seen.

   The visibility from that angle was good.

3. (programming) The scope within which a variable or function is able to be accessed directly.
4. (obsolete, rare) Something worthy of being seen; a sight.
   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 658:

     ‘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.’

Synonyms

• apparency
• seeability
• seeableness
• visibleness

Antonyms

• hiddenness
• invisibility
• latency

Derived terms

• high-visibility
• supply chain visibility

Related terms

• visible
• visibly

Translations

degree to which things may be seen

• Arabic: رُؤْيَة f (ruʔya)
• Asturian: visibilidá f
• Belarusian: ві́дзімасць f (vídzimascʹ), ба́чнасць f (báčnascʹ), ба́чымасць f (báčymascʹ), відо́масць f (vidómascʹ)
• Bulgarian: ви́димост (bg) f (vídimost)
• Catalan: visibilitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 能見度／能见度 (zh) (néngjiàndù), 可見度／可见度 (zh) (kějiàndù)

• Czech: viditelnost f
• Danish: synlighed c
• Dutch: zichtbaarheid (nl) c
• Esperanto: videbleco
• Estonian: nähtavus
• Finnish: näkyvyys (fi)
• French: visibilité (fr) f
• Galician: visibilidade (gl) f
• Georgian: ხილვადობა (xilvadoba), ხილულობა (xiluloba)
• German: Sicht (de) f, Sichtbarkeit (de) f, Sichtverhältnisse f, Sichtweite (de) f
• Hungarian: láthatóság (hu)
• Interlingua: visibilitate
• Irish: infheictheacht f, léargas m, feiceáil f
• Italian: visibilità (it) f
• Japanese: 可視 (ja) (かし, kashi), 顕在 (ja) (けんざい, kenzai)
• Korean: 시정(視程) (ko) (sijeong)
• Latin: visibilitas f
• Latvian: redzamība f
• Macedonian: видливост f (vidlivost)
• Polish: widoczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: visibilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: vizibilitate (ro) f
• Russian: ви́димость (ru) f (vídimostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѝдљиво̄ст f

  Roman: vìdljivōst (sh) f

• Slovak: viditeľnosť f
• Slovene: vidljivost f
• Spanish: visibilidad (es) f
• Swedish: synlighet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ви́димість f (výdymistʹ)
• Welsh: gwelededd m