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Thinkable. World English Historical Dictionary

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Thinkable. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Thinkable a. [f. THINK v.2 + -ABLE. Cf. UNTHINKABLE c. 1430, etc.]

1   1.  Capable of being thought; such as one can form a notion or idea of; cogitable.

2 1854.  H. Spencer, in Brit. Q. Rev., July, 137. A corresponding progress in language, by which greater varieties of objects are thinkable and expressible.

3 1883.  H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W., Introd. (1884), 3. To marshal the discrete materials … into thinkable form.

4   2.  That can be deemed real or actual; conceivable or imaginable as an existing fact.

5 1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XX. vi. (1872), IX. 109. How charming that you should make thinkable to us … what we were all inclined to think.

6 1908.  Times, 10 Sept., 8/4. It is thinkable that considerate driving may render legal enactments unnecessary.

7   Hence Thinkableness.

8 1895.  A. J. Balfour, Found. Belief, 286. ‘Ultimate’ scientific ideas may be unthinkable without prejudice to the ‘thinkableness’ of ‘proximate’ scientific ideas.

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