associable

English

Adjective

associable (comparative more associable, superlative most associable)

  1. Capable of being associated or joined.
    • 1855, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology
      We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another.
  2. (obsolete) sociable; companionable
  3. (medicine, obsolete) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
    • 1802, Samuel l. Mitchill and Edward Miller, "Remarks on the Sympathy of the Stomach", in The Medical Repository
      the stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body
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