Definition of "nameable"
nameable
adjective
not comparable
Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name.
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Mr. Hyde […] gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Search for Mr. Hyde”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, page 25
The vogue for the sleuth-flâneur […] in the first half of the twentieth century has encouraged recent attempts to map the rise of British detective fiction, and its subsequent love affair with the thriller, onto the shifts in national morale precipitated by international conflict. One train of thought, for instance, suggests that the genre provides nameable, explicable corpses to mourn, after the senseless obliterations of the First World War.
2007 June 20, Trev Broughton, “More work for Margery Allingham”, in The Times Literary Supplement
(obsolete) Worthy of being named or having a name; significant; memorable (especially in negative expressions).
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