verifiable

See also: vérifiable

English

Etymology

From verify +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛɹ.ɪˈfaɪ.ə.bəl/, /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

verifiable (comparative more verifiable, superlative most verifiable)

1. Able to be verified or confirmed.

   Do you have verifiable evidence to support that claim?

   • 2022 February 22, Moisés Naím, “The Dictator's New Playbook”, in Foreign Affairs‎:

     But the post-truthism that the new autocrats are so apt at employing goes far beyond fibbing: it denies the existence of a verifiable reality. Post-truthism is not chiefly about getting lies accepted as truths but about muddying the waters to the point that it becomes difficult to discern the difference between truth and falsehood.

2. Able to be qualified by a Boolean expression.

Antonyms

• falsifiable

Translations

able to be verified or confirmed

Bulgarian: проверим (bg) (proverim) Catalan: verificable Czech: ověřitelný (cs), verifikovatelný (cs) French: vérifiable (fr) German: verifizierbar, überprüfbar Hungarian: ellenőrizhető (hu) Italian: verificabile (it), comprovabile (it) Spanish: verificable

Noun

verifiable (plural verifiables)

1. (logic) A statement or observation that can be verified.