lookable

English

Etymology

From look +‎ -able.

Adjective

lookable (comparative more lookable, superlative most lookable)

1. Able to be looked at, or suited to visual interaction; visible.
   • 1972, Howard Hunter, Humanities, Religion, and the Arts Tomorrow, page 197:

     They are outside film because they do not make films that are lookable. The mechanics of the medium are too demanding for them — they would probably not admit this by denying there is anything that you need to know.

   • 2011, Gregory Fricchione, Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society:

     The infant in such a dyad comes to know objects, as Piaget points out, first as lookable, suckable, and graspable.

   • 2014, Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Handbook of Research on Interactive Information Quality in Expanding Social Network Communications:

     Named the “Lookable User Interface,” or LUI, the approach is based on the concept of a Personal Reality (PR) system. Here the computer adapts to the user's worldview in a personalized way, and according to the specific requirements, behaviors, and perceptive skills of the individual. Typically, a PR system creates and adjusts (in real-time) 3D perspective view(s) of a data-set, including (potentially) the field of view of a scene and the apparent distance and scale of objects […]