nameable
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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
"Pure contemplation," he proceeds, "is negative, being occupied with no sensible image, no distinct and nameable idea; it stops only at the purely intellectual and abstract idea of being."
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
