imageableadj.

1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum lxxi. 539 The Eternall Good..becometh distinguishable, Creaturely and Conceivable. [ (side-note) ] Imagible, Imaginable, or Comprehensible.

1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 42 Whatever hath Limits of number and measure is imagible.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 90 Whatever is admitted to be conceivable must be imageable.

a1817 S. T. Coleridge Notebk. in S. Eilenberg Strange Power of Speech (1992) ii. vii. 189 Hence Indistinctnes—& as the human mind still craves for distinctness, thence the turning to & resting wholly in imagible things.

1864 Reader 21 May 657 The concepts of the mind are divided into imageable and unimageable.

1924 Philos. Rev. 33 259 Now when the objects of thought are not really imageable at all, but rather what Cudworth calls ‘things understood’, we might expect mental images to be lacking altogether.

1960 K. Lynch Image of City i. 10 The city of Venice might be an example of such a highly imageable environment.

2003 W. Desmond Art, Origins, Otherness i. 38 The original is such as to be imagible in the images.

2007 Med. Imaging Week (Nexis) 1 Dec. 195 No evidence of right hyperactivation was observed..during the naming of imageable words in response to pictured objects.