classifiable
adjEtymology c. 1800 classify + -able
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Able to be classified.
- Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:
- 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.2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 378:
- Derived terms
- classifiability, nonclassifiable, unclassifiable