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

Underfunding staff at either end of the tenure spectrum can come with demonstrable and quantifiable risks. —Sentry Insurance, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Was there a quantifiable boost as well? —Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 June 2026

The Mets could be pressing at the plate, but that’s not exactly a quantifiable stat. —Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026

But the Hispanic electorate has never been a monolithic, or quantifiable, bloc. —Mark McKinnon, Vanity Fair, 4 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above