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Explainable   Listen
adjective
Explainable  adj.  Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.
Synonyms: explicable.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Explainable" Quotes from Famous Books



... Egypt, the monastic recluses of the Middle Ages, the ecstatics of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century exhibited many symptoms that were, and are still, attributed by religious enthusiasts to supernatural agencies, but which are explainable by what we know of hypnotism. The Hesychasts of Mount Athos who remained motionless for days with their gaze directed steadily to the navel; the Taskodrugites who remained statuesque for a long period with the finger applied to the nose; ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... F. 160, V. 60, V. 100 and V. 140), there are to be noticed a lack of the very small angles and a preponderance of the middle and larger angles. F. 160, V. 140 and 180 seem to be the only exceptions, which are easily explainable by a dislike of the extremely small angle near the edge; for it appears from the remarks of the subjects that there is always a subconsciousness of the direction suggested by the lower pointed end of the line. For the outer positions of both lines, a large angle would leave the center empty, ...
— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... there were no evidences of stratification in the body; that what appears to be such is simply the difference in shading, produced by the greater or less density of the material composing the figure. The appearances indicating stratification are also explainable by the action of the water, charged with carbonate of lime, upon the body. The line of contact between the body and the water would necessarily receive a deposit of lime, causing a straight line of lighter color to ...
— The American Goliah • Anon.

... occult methods of communication among the natives of India, between whom, it is said, news flies by means too strange and subtle to be humanly explainable, is no more difficult a problem to solve than that of the lightning rapidity with which a knowledge of the transpiring of any new local event darts through the slowest, and, as far as outward signs go, the least communicative English village slumbering drowsily among ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... a spinning of relations and connecting links between different sciences that unity may spring out of the variety of knowledge. History, for example, is a series and collocation of facts explainable on the basis of cause and effect, a development. On the other hand, history is intimately related to geography, language, natural science, literature, and mathematics. It would be impossible to draw real history out by the roots without ...
— The Elements of General Method - Based on the Principles of Herbart • Charles A. McMurry

... religious disbelief in general and against Atheism in particular. We have here more than the mere rejection of a theory or view of life. There is a certain emotional resentment, a shrinking from the one who is guilty of disbelief, such as is not explainable on ordinary grounds. The attitude is ridiculous, so ridiculous that many who adopt it are ashamed to openly acknowledge it, but it is there, and its ...
— Theism or Atheism - The Great Alternative • Chapman Cohen

... the chapters under the general title "Early Years" contained records of fears based upon images implanted in the mind and flourishing there— images arising from some childish misapprehension or misinterpretation of some ordinary and perfectly explainable circumstance. "I was afraid to pass a closed closet alone after dark," one of these says. "I had heard of 'skeletons in closets'; I knew there were none in our closets in the daytime, but I couldn't be sure that they did not come to sleep in ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken



Words linked to "Explainable" :   explicable, interpretable



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