effability
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from New Latin effābilitās.
Noun
[edit]effability (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being effable.
- Synonyms: describability, expressibility, speakability, speakableness
- Antonyms: ineffability, ineffableness; indescribability, inexpressibility, unspeakability, unspeakableness
- In linguistics, the Principle of Effability asserts that every natural language can express any human thought that is expressible at all in [any] natural language.