knowable

adjective

know·​able ˈnō-ə-bəl 

: capable of being known : able to be determined or understood

This year, California votes March 3, and whether it offers a delegate haul for one candidate or a scramble between several candidates is not yet knowable.

—David Weigel

At the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another number won't have.

—Jeffrey Kluger and Alice Park

A smear of orange tells everything knowable about light when it collides with the bottom of a copper pot.

—Peter Schjedlahl

Examples of knowable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The term, in the biblical sense, connotes an awe and respect of a greater, not entirely knowable power that puts humanity in its proper place. —Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2024

At the same time, technological progress has vastly expanded the realm of the knowable. —Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024

Security can be no more absolute than the future can be knowable. . . . —Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2020

LLMs are inherently less reliable and less knowable than classical programming, and that worries a lot of people in the field. —David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above