Effability

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being effable. uncountable

    "In linguistics, the Principle of Effability asserts that every natural language can express any human thought that is expressible at all in [any] natural language."

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describabilityexpressibilityspeakabilityspeakableness

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"In linguistics, the Principle of Effability asserts that every natural language can express any human thought that is expressible at all in [any] natural language."

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin effābilitās.

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