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What is the noun for decipherability?

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decipherment
  1. The analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.
  2. Decryption.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It takes virtually no account of all that scholars have been able to learn about Egypt since the decipherment of hieroglyphics.”
      “We have very few photographs of the artist, so every one of them becomes precious and open to decipherment.”
      “The decipherment of Linear B was a sheer triumph of methodical cryptology, again based on the correct hunch that the hidden language was Greek.”
decipherability
decipher
decipheress
  1. (rare) A female decipherer.
decipherer
  1. A person who deciphers.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Newcastle's rediscovered correspondence with the decipherer of the Rosetta Stone by Margaret Maitland is at the Great North Museum.”
      “Dr. Nirenberg, a Nobel Prize laureate, was the decipherer of the genetic code.”
      “As an incidental result he demonstrated his own talents as a decipherer when in 1845 the society received copies of an inscription at Kapur di Giri, near Peshawar.”
deciphering
decipherabilities
decipherments
decipherings
decipheresses
  1. plural of decipheress
decipherers
  1. plural of decipherer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But lack of concrete evidence will not stop would-be decipherers from advancing theories and interpretations.”
      “For the decipherers and code-breakers on either side of the political fence, his humour has been like a divining rod.”
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