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Nameable vs Nameworthy - What's the difference?

nameable | nameworthy |

As adjectives the difference between nameable and nameworthy

is that nameable is able to be called by a specific name while nameworthy is worthy of being named or having a name; nameable; worthy of mention.

nameable

English

Alternative forms

* namable

Adjective

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  • able to be called by a specific name
  • (obsolete) memorable

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    nameworthy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthy of being named or having a name; nameable; worthy of mention.
  • *1940 , Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Wayfarer's words: Volume 3 :
    • Languor was not in his heart, Weariness not on his brow. . . . for, while he ailed in body, he was, as man, seeking the good of the 'man' in us; he was naming to us nameworthy things that he saw; he was seeking to make us well.
  • *1984 , Società editrice il Mulino, Quaderni di semantica: Volume 5 :
    • [...] pound is intended to serve as a short-cut means of singling out a particular referent or class of referents although the referent or class in question may not really be nameworthy in the long run.
  • *1998 , Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Endangered languages: language loss and community response :
    • Words are created for a purpose, as labels for recurring, nameworthy concepts.
  • *2006 , Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski, Non-definiteness and plurality :
    • However, since does not identify a nameworthy human activity, the VP gawi chaj ('scissors+search') does not provide an optimally felicitous f-structure constituent.