imaginability

C2 Topic:Mind & Cognition
US /ɪˌmædʒənəˈbɪləti/ UK /ɪˌmædʒɪnəˈbɪləti/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the quality of being possible to imagine or form a mental representation of

    Vivid imaginability is not by itself evidence that an abstract claim is true.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · the quality of being... conceivabilityvisualizability
Opposites
inconceivabilityunimaginability
Word family
Derived forms imaginableimaginably

Etymology

From imaginable + -ity. Imaginable derives from Latin imaginari ("to picture to oneself"), from imago ("image, likeness"); the noun names the capacity of an idea or scene to be mentally represented.

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