Nature exhibits only changes, which habitually coincide with one another so that their habits are describable in simple 'laws.
The active power, though one only, is indirectly describable as of three kinds, the possession of the swiftness of thought, the power of assuming forms at will, and the faculty of expatiation.
It seems to me that all the phenomena are accurately describablein these very simple general terms.
The little man stopped short and in full view of the public achieved what, had he been a child, were most properly describableas making a face at me.
Each of these stages of psychical development, even if that development be obviously describable as degeneration, has something which, duly adjusted, has its place and function in the theory of the normally-complete human mind.
They are merely aggregations of describable parts, each of which has well-defined functions.
It modestly confines its scope of research to what appears in finite and describable forms.
The belief in the metaphysical transcendence of the object of knowledge seems to have its real origin in an empirical transcendence of a very specific and describable sort.
It may be that the psychologist deals with states of consciousness as the significant, the analyzable and describable form, to which he reduces the things he is studying.
A universe describable in evolutionary terms is a universe which shows, not indeed design, but tendency and purpose; which exhibits achievement, not indeed of a single end, but of a multiplicity of natural goods at whose apex is consciousness.
None the less it is, as he here says, important; and what exactly that importance amounts to, and whether it is really true that it has such minor importance as to be rightly describable as unessential, is what we have to decide.
This independent origin is only describable in mental or psychological terms.
The former may be conditioned by representation, and may therefore be describable as appearances, but are not for that reason to be equated with representation.
The concept, whereby Reason limits sensibility, is not properly describable as being that of the thing in itself; it is the unique concept of the unconditioned.
The latter alone is correctly describable as a state of the mind.
But there is in sounds such an exquisite and continuous gradation in pitch, and such a measurable relation in length, that an object almost as complex and describable as the visible one can be built out of them.
This objectivity can accrue to any mental figment that has enough cohesion, content, and individuality to be describable and recognizable, and these qualities belong no less to audible than to spatial ideas.
Beresford had come to the house clamorous for blood, I will admit at once that I had wrapped a taunt round every word that I had spoken, and for weeks Grayle had been in a state only describable as eruptive.
I quote them because of their effect in lashing Beresford to a passion only describable as insane.
They expect in general to grow, but in what direction, to what describable results, they never stop to think.
V One of the subtlest fallacies by which we miss believing in an earnest God is not describable as an opinion.
Such instincts are not disclosable in twentieth-century language, nor are the details of such a journey properly describable at all.
Like a vision it happened all at once, as a room or landscape happens, and what happens all at once, coming through a synthesis of the senses, is not properly describable later.
Here again a complex mode of response must be assumed, having as its correlate an experience describable only in terms of its functioning, which is such as to enable the organism to act intelligently, i.
It may still be called an act, but it has no describable instruments nor technique of operation.
And the 'good' we are now considering can surely be not less describable than these.
There is, of course, no gap between reflexes and instincts, or between instincts and the still less easily describableoriginal tendencies.
The action of the public is based on a universe of discourse in which things, although they may and do have for every individual somewhat different value, are describable at any rate in terms that mean the same to all individuals.
The difference between any two individuals, if describable at all, is described by comparing the amounts which A possesses of various traits with the amounts which B possesses of the same traits.
If there are no intelligible ordescribable social processes, then there may be progress, but there will be no sociology and no methods of progress.
There occurred, also, less definite and easily describable efforts to get at the reward.
It was not a work describable to the fastidious ears of our century, unless we leave part of the description in Latin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "describable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: accountable; explicable; interpretable
