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showable

adj

Etymology

From show + -able.

  1. derived from *(s)kewh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *skawwōną✻ — “to look, see”
  3. inherited from *skauwōn✻
  4. inherited from scēawian
  5. inherited from schewen
  6. suffixed as showable — “show + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being shown

    Capable of, or suitable for, being shown; exhibitable.

    • A longy Manx cat is not showable, though it can make a good pet.

  2. Something that can be shown.

    • For Meinong's extraordinary work on emotional presentation will provide a series of ideas and distinctions that will enable us to push a bit further the idea of what we might call literary showables.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for showable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA