Other Word Forms
- nameability noun
- unnameable adjective
Etymology
Origin of nameable
Example Sentences
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Even so, Lupyan and his colleagues found strong differences in participants' ability to learn which circles went into the different categories based on how easily nameable the colors were.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
But now, during a global pandemic, those nebulous anxieties hardened into something nameable.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2020
So the question is, what perceptual habits and patterns of consumption are we now acquiring that will be discernible and nameable only to observers a century from now?
From Slate • Jan. 4, 2018
The unnameable tensions in the music became much more nameable.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016
The barn chamber 's full o' their stuff, so 't no hay can go in; altogether there ain't any nameable kind of a fool-trick them young varmints didn't play on these premises.
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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