classifiable

English

Etymology

c. 1800 classify +‎ -able

Adjective

classifiable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be classified.
    • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days‎:
      Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.
    • 2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 378:
      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.

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