Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See namable.

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  • adjective able to be called by a specific name
  • adjective obsolete memorable

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Examples

  • As the tight grip of old organizing principles becomes loosened, as emotional experiencing thereby expands and becomes increasingly nameable within a context of human understanding and as what one feels becomes seamlessly woven into the fabric of whom one essentially is, there is an enhancement of one's very sense of being.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • As the tight grip of old organizing principles becomes loosened, as emotional experiencing thereby expands and becomes increasingly nameable within a context of human understanding and as what one feels becomes seamlessly woven into the fabric of whom one essentially is, there is an enhancement of one's very sense of being.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.

    Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: 8 Ways to Obsess Productively Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2010

  • Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.

    Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: 8 Ways to Obsess Productively Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2010

  • As the tight grip of old organizing principles becomes loosened, as emotional experiencing thereby expands and becomes increasingly nameable within a context of human understanding and as what one feels becomes seamlessly woven into the fabric of whom one essentially is, there is an enhancement of one's very sense of being.

    Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012

  • Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.

    Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: 8 Ways to Obsess Productively Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2010

  • The great wine cities are readily nameable: New York, London, Hong Kong and San Francisco.

    No License, No Worry Here Lettie Teague 2011

  • The world I had always counted on to be solid and predictable and nameable was transformed in that moment into a world of unknown causes and dreamlike effects.

    William Horden: The Sacred Art of Living and Dying 2010

  • The world I had always counted on to be solid and predictable and nameable was transformed in that moment into a world of unknown causes and dreamlike effects.

    William Horden: The Sacred Art of Living and Dying 2010

  • "Club Monad" participates in a process of correspondence-seeking that, it finds, selects societies according to an unparaphrasable affinity that is as much verbal as habitual; this process never reduces the group solidarity of the moment to a nameable identity.

    Rei Terada 2008

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