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

Six hundred hands, meanwhile, will sign as they have sworn: six hundred save one; one Loyalist Abdiel, still visible by this sole light-point, and nameable, poor 'M. Martin d'Auch, from Castelnaudary, in Languedoc.'

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas