sayable

Etymology

From say + -able.

adj

  1. Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable.
    Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment. 2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12

noun

  1. That which can be said.
    On the other hand, verbs indicate incomplete sayables – predicates – that are related to actions and undergoing of actions. 2015, Ana María Mora-Marquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, page 113

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