classifiable

English

Etymology

From classify +‎ -able. First use appears c. 1820.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

classifiable (not comparable)

1. Able to be classified.
   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 7, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

     Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.

   • 2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 378:

     The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.

Derived terms

• classifiability
• nonclassifiable
• unclassifiable

Translations

able to be classified

• Catalan: classificable
• Finnish: luokiteltava
• French: classable (fr)
• Galician: clasificable (gl), clasificábel (gl)
• German: klassifizierbar
• Italian: classificabile
• Manx: yn-sorçhal
• Romanian: clasificabil m
• Spanish: clasificable