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Etymology

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From say +‎ -able.

Adjective

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sayable (comparative more sayable, superlative most sayable)

  1. Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable. [from 17th c.]
    • 2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:
      Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment.

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Noun

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sayable (plural sayables)

  1. That which can be said. [from 20th c.]
    • 2015, Ana María Mora-Marquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, page 113:
      On the other hand, verbs indicate incomplete sayables – predicates – that are related to actions and undergoing of actions.

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References

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  • sayable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "sayable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.