Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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namable .
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- adjective able to be called by a specific
name - adjective obsolete
memorable
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Examples
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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?
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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?
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Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.
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Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.
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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?
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Choose an obsession with a nameable goal built in.
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The great wine cities are readily nameable: New York, London, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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