knowable
pronunciation
How to pronounce knowable in British English:
UK ['nəʊəbl]
How to pronounce knowable in American English:
US ['noʊrbəl]
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- Adjective:
- capable of being known
Word Origin
- knowable (adj.)
- c. 1400, from know (v.) + -able.
Example
- 1. These values are known and knowable .
- 2. All of these things are knowable and definable and yet obscured and opaque .
- 3. Cyber-crime used to feel , if not like a game with rules , then at least like an arena of knowable motivations .
- 4. The boss of google , eric schmidt , this week acknowledged the problems " when everything is available , knowable and recorded " .
- 5. If we want to believe , as einstein did , that there is a reality independent of our observations , then this reality can either be knowable , unknowable or veiled .