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classifiable

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: c. 1800 classify + -able

  1. Able to be classified.

    Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.

    The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.