thinkable
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editthinkable (comparative more thinkable, superlative most thinkable)
- Able to be thought or imagined; conceivable.
- 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
- Marx held that a society from which all sources of conflict, aggression, and evil have been thus extirpated was not only thinkable, but was historically imminent.
- 2023 May 27, Ray Sanchez, “Does Brian Laundrie’s mom risk criminal charges over her ‘burn after reading’ letter? Here’s what legal experts say”, in CNN[1], archived from the original on 27 May 2023:
- “Nothing can separate us; not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not threats, not even sin, not the thinkable or unthinkable can get between us,” it reads.
- (rare) Morally acceptable or legal.
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editable to be thought or imagined; conceivable
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editthinkable (plural thinkables)
- (philosophy) Something that can be thought about.
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