quantifiable

adjective

quan·​ti·​fi·​a·​ble ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 

: able to be expressed as an amount, quantity, or numerical value : capable of being quantified

quantifiable risks/benefits

There's a school of thought in Hollywood that good comedy is quantifiable, that you can measure a successful script or pilot on a punchlines-per-page or laughs-per-minute basis.

—Daniel Fienberg

These companies are ranked based on their score in Entrepreneur's 2016 Franchise 500, which is determined by objective, quantifiable criteria, including system size, growth and financial strength and stability.

—Tracy Stapp Herold

quantifiably

ˌkwän-tə-ˈfī-ə-blē 

adverb

Those who offer medical care to the children of poverty find themselves using their research projects to demonstrate that poverty is not only damaging, but quantifiably damaging to infants and children, searching for specific indices of growth and development, individual health and family function, which will allow them to measure the parameters of growing up at the bottom of our society.

—Perri Klass

Examples of quantifiable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Why? Understanding The EU Nature Credits Framework The EU’s nature credits roadmap creates quantifiable biodiversity certification units that reward those who actively contribute to ecosystem restoration and conservation, including farmers, foresters, fishers, landowners and local communities. —Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025

Reforms like Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution and Zero-Base Budgeting demanded that all federal agencies and initiatives define outcomes in advance and justify expenses with quantifiable projections. —Time, 30 July 2025

The French biochemist and New York Times bestselling author has offered herself up as a guinea pig—wearing a continuous glucose monitor and tracking how different foods spike her blood sugar, which in turn affects mood, brain fog, nerve function, and more—and sharing the quantifiable data online. —Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 29 July 2025

Talk to your boss to set new achievable, quantifiable goals. —Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 28 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above