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

Again, the theatrical elements — especially the text — come together as pieces that sit side by side to become a greater whole that is less nameable than felt.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 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

Perhaps his soul could have told what they knew and what they concealed; but he was unwilling to drag it all out into the realm of known, nameable things.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson