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generable

American  
[jen-er-uh-buhl] / ˈdʒɛn ər ə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being generated or produced.


generable British  
/ ˈdʒɛnərəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be generated

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Other Word Forms

  • generability noun
  • generableness noun
  • ungenerable adjective

Etymology

Origin of generable

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin generābil ( is ) creative, productive, equivalent to gener ( āre ) to beget, produce ( gender 2 ) + -ābilis -able

Example Sentences

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The world moreover was generable, and had been generated from the manifested energy of the Fire.

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

The generable cosmos, therefore, was generated from the ingenerable Fire.

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

It is the simultaneous separating and joining of the generable and the ingenerable, the two modes of the Self-generable; it is the link between personal and impersonal, bound and free, finite and infinite.

From The Gnostic Crucifixion by Mead, G. R. S.

The system would not run down until all the kinetic energy had been converted into heat, and all the heat generable had been dissipated.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

Second, "Those who claim that life and everything, besides the bare substance of matter, or extended bulk, is merely accidental, generable, or corruptible, rising out of some mixture or modification of matter."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 by Walker, Aaron