effability

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin effābilitās.

Noun

effability (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being effable.
    Synonyms: describability, expressibility, speakability, speakableness
    Antonyms: ineffability, ineffableness; indescribability, inexpressibility, unspeakability, unspeakableness
    In linguistics, the Principle of Effability asserts that every natural language can express any human thought that is expressible at all in natural language.