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

The study establishes that this magnetic influence is quantifiable and significant, accounting for approximately 17% of the observed rotation in visible light and rising to 70% in the infrared spectrum—factors previously considered negligible in optical physics. —Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025

But these quantifiable achievements weren’t the only markers of her newfound freedom. —Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025

And this is not to mention the resources consumption of AI, a cost which isn’t immediately quantifiable or made clear. —Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025

At the core of quantifiable mathematics is the notion of precision. —Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1862, in the meaning defined above