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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

effability en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin effābilitās.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being effable.
    • In linguistics, the Principle of Effability asserts that every natural language can express any human thought that is expressible at all in [any] natural language.

Antonyms

indescribability · unspeakableness · unspeakability · inexpressibility · ineffability · ineffableness

Synonyms

speakability · expressibility · speakableness · describability