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English
Etymology
c. 1800 classify + -able
Adjective
classifiable (not comparable)
- 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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