knowable
/'nouəbl/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Capable of being known: Describes something that can be understood, discovered, or comprehended through experience, study, or investigation.
- Capable of being perceived or recognized: Indicates that something can be identified or become apparent to the mind.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The universe contains many mysteries, but scientists believe they are ultimately knowable through research.
- Her intentions were not immediately knowable from her vague statement.
- The full extent of the damage is not yet knowable.
Advanced Usage
- Philosophical Context: In philosophy, "knowable" is often used to discuss the limits of human understanding and what truths can be accessed.
- The debate centered on whether all mathematical truths are knowable.
- "The Knowable": Used as a noun phrase to refer collectively to things that can be known.
- Human inquiry is a journey from the unknown toward the knowable.
Variants and Related Words
- Knowability (noun): The quality or state of being knowable.
- Philosophers question the knowability of certain metaphysical concepts.
- Unknowable (adjective): The direct antonym, meaning incapable of being known.
- Some aspects of consciousness remain unknowable to current science.
Synonyms
- Discoverable: Able to be found out or uncovered.
- Cognizable: Capable of being known or recognized, especially in a legal or intellectual sense.
- Perceivable: Able to be seen, understood, or recognized.
Antonyms
- Unknowable: Incapable of being known.
- Incomprehensible: Impossible to understand.
- Inscrutable: Impossible to understand or interpret.
Adjective
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capable of being known
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