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

Whatever that feeling is — nameable or not — you’ll find it exerts a pull.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 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

We are thus, as it were, driven upon the theory of Theism as furnishing the only nameable explanation of this universal order.

From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles