imaginability en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English imagine Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English imaginability From imagine + -ability.
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(uncountable) The quality of being imaginable.
As suggested in the previous section, the relativity of imaginability to these factors is inevitably complex and messy and subject to degree and precludes any one right answer to what will be imaginable in any particular case.
2008 January 11, Cain Samuel Todd, “Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: dissolving the puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 187–211:
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ro imaginabilitate (quality) · pl wyobrażalność (quality)