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sayable

sayable

English

Adjective

sayable ‎(comparative more sayable, superlative most sayable)

Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable. [from 17th c.]

Noun

sayable ‎(uncountable)

That which can be said. [from 20th c.]
- 2015, Ben Lerner, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 38, no. 12:
  Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment.

References

“sayable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
"sayable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.