knowable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being known, understood, or discovered

   The exact cause may never be knowable from the surviving records.

Formed from know + the adjective-forming suffix -able ("capable of being"). The word has been attested since the fifteenth century and is especially useful in philosophical discussion of the limits of knowledge.

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