figurable
Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
Adjective
- Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- figurable substrate
- Lead is figurable, but water is not.
- The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the...
- Capable of being figural or emblematic.
- On the terms of what is here held a true Philosophy, the Self-regulating ability of an habitual oscillation between Objectiveness and Subjectivity, which produres for us our culminating faculty of Philosophy, is so...
- Nox is the daughter of Orcus and so one of the three infigurables; but through reason she becomes the most ancient of the gods, and in this aspect is figurable. She stands for the materia prima, and as a goddess can...
- There, it seems to me, is a major axis for research in art history and theory that encounters psychoanalysis: these latent figures hidden by the great works as their secret truth; a latent figure, a sort of figurable...
- Able to be imagined; conceivable.
- figurable entity
- figurable term
- Remember: figuring out the un-figurable is the ultimate oxymoron. - 2006, Thomas O’Donnell, I Am Who I Am: An Autobiography of God, page 21:
Origin
From figure + -able.