Nameable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name. not-comparable

    "1635, Alexander Gill, The Sacred Philosophie of Holy Scripture, London: Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, Chapter 8, p. 30, [God’s] pure being, because it is neither understandable, nor nameable by us, we speake of goodnesse, of power, &c. as of the effluences or prime acts thereof […]"

  2. 2
    Worthy of being named or having a name; significant; memorable (especially in negative expressions). not-comparable, obsolete

    "[…] the culture [of alfalfa] is not very expensive, though the profit is not nameable till the second or third year, when the cuttings are considerable […]"

Synonyms

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eminentdistinguishableidentifiablemarkworthymemorablenotable

Example

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"The Reason that can be reasoned is not the eternal Reason. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Unnameable is of heaven and earth the beginning. The Nameable becomes of the ten thousand things the mother."

Etymology

From name + -able.

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