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- noun The quality of being
describable .
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Examples
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This describability of some object in this formal system is no guarantee that any comparible thing exists.
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In accordance with his dogma that sex cannot be represented he dances faffily around the many scenes of coupling and shagging that litter the novel 'the nightly interaction, the indescribable deed, now took place', 23; but the sex keeps clattering back into describability and, indeed, naffness.
Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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In accordance with his dogma that sex cannot be represented he dances faffily around the many scenes of coupling and shagging that litter the novel 'the nightly interaction, the indescribable deed, now took place', 23; but the sex keeps clattering back into describability and, indeed, naffness.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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1 Regularity - “Lawfullness” or, better, predicability or describability via repeateable “natural laws”.
Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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