knowable

Adjective

Meaning

That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cognizable cognoscible cognisable simple clear know lucid distinct visible apparent obvious sure accessible plain clean
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Antonyms

unknowable full complex difficult advanced complicated
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knowability

Examples

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. Jimmy Wales

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices. Bill Watterson

The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable. Karl Barth

And in this unity into which I was taken and where I was enlightened, I understood this Being and knew it more clearly than, by speech, reason, or sight, one can know anything that is knowable on earth. Hadewijch

About truth I have always been monotheistic. It has been an article of faith with me, going back to college days, that there is a truth and that it is knowable. Mary McCarthy

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. William Poundstone

Close letter words and terms

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