conceivability
Ability to envision
Conceivability is the quality of being conceivable—capable of being imagined or thought possible.
The term appears most often in philosophy, where conceivability serves as a test for logical possibility: if something can be coherently imagined, it might be possible.
The conceivability of time travel doesn't prove it can happen.
Capable of being conceived
- graspableAble to be held
- fathomableCapable of being grasped
- comprehensibleAble to be understood
- understandableAble to be grasped
perceivable · apprehensible · supposable · thinkable · ponderable · accessible · digestible · intelligible
Latent capacity for development
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- eventualityPotential future happening
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- scenarioPostulated event sequence
hypothesis · conjecture · supposition · speculation · contingency · opportunity · alternative · option
State of being achievable
- modalityParticular form or type
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- counterfactualContrary-to-fact supposition
a priori · epistemology · metaphysics · ontology · thought experiment · propositional · coherence · dualism
Able to convince
- credibleWorthy of acceptance
- feasibleCapable of being done
- viableCapable of succeeding
- probableLikely to occur
realistic · logical · sound · valid · reasonable · likely · tenable · coherent
Faculty for forming ideas
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- ideationForming mental concepts
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
intellection · apprehension · understanding · perception · reasoning · thought · contemplation · reflection
imaginable
Capable of being conceived
- graspableAble to be held
- fathomableCapable of being grasped
- comprehensibleAble to be understood
understandable · perceivable · apprehensible · supposable · thinkable · ponderable · accessible · digestible · intelligible
potential
Latent capacity for development
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- eventualityPotential future happening
- likelihoodChance something will occur
scenario · hypothesis · conjecture · supposition · speculation · contingency · opportunity · alternative · option · what-if
possibility
State of being achievable
- modalityParticular form or type
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- contingencyUncertain possible event
counterfactual · a priori · epistemology · metaphysics · ontology · thought experiment · propositional · coherence · dualism · idealism
believable
Able to convince
probable · realistic · logical · sound · valid · reasonable · likely · tenable · coherent · intelligible
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- ideationForming mental concepts
abstraction · intellection · apprehension · understanding · perception · reasoning · thought · contemplation · reflection · visualization
- possibilitiespossibility, chance, likelihood, probability, odds
- modal logicnecessity, possibility, K, T, B
conceivabilityinconceivability
Inability to be grasped mentally
unthinkability · incomprehensibility · unimaginability · impossibility · unfathomability
conceivabilitycertainty
Total absence of doubt
actuality · demonstrability · knowability · provability · factuality
conceivabilityactuality
State of existing fact
reality · existence · concreteness · materiality · instantiation
concept, conceive, conception, misconception, conceived, conceptual, conceivable, inconceivable, conceiving