quantifiable

[kwon-tuh-fahy-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. able to be measured or counted.

   The goal for your walking program should be quantifiable, like 45 minutes per day, or a particular number of miles.

Other Word Forms

• nonquantifiable adjective
• quantifiably adverb
• unquantifiable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of quantifiable¹

quantify ( def. ) + -able ( def. )

Example Sentences

“If you wake up every morning a little bit unfulfilled, it is so common to think, ‘If only I had more money, then everything would be OK,’ because money is so quantifiable,” he said.

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“If you wake up every morning a little bit unfulfilled, it is so common to think, ‘If only I had more money, then everything would be OK,’ because money is so quantifiable,” he said.

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The farm also collects quantifiable data for soil carbon sequestration.

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When researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reviewed more than 300 AI initiatives, they found only 5% were achieving quantifiable value.

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Sociology is supposed to supply quantifiable kinds of self-knowledge about life in the mass, but it led the academic drift from describing social behavior to pathologizing political wrongthink.

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Related Words

• perceptible 
• quantitative 
• significant