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

She would give herself away supremely if she showed she suspected me of placing my finger on the spot—if she understood the person I had not named to be nameable as Gilbert Long.

From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry