"knowability" meaning in English

See knowability in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: knowabilities [plural]
Etymology: From know + -ability. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|know|ability}} know + -ability Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} knowability (countable and uncountable, plural knowabilities)
  1. The quality or state of being knowable. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality or state of being knowable): poznatelnost [feminine] (Czech), cognoscibilidad [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From know + -ability.",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)",
          "text": "Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology."
        }
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        "The quality or state of being knowable."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "knowable",
          "knowable"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "quality or state of being knowable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "poznatelnost"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "quality or state of being knowable",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cognoscibilidad"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "knowability"
}
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      "word": "unknowability"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From know + -ability.",
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        [
          "knowable",
          "knowable"
        ]
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "quality or state of being knowable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "poznatelnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or state of being knowable",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cognoscibilidad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knowability"
}

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