seeableadj.n.

a1425 Benjamin Minor (Harl. 1022) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 165 Forwy, a saule þat is ȝit ruyde & fleshle, knaws not ȝitt bot bodele ynges [= þynges], & no yng comes ȝitt to þe mynde bot seabull ynges.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 162 Marie Magdalen..vsid the oynement as a seable and a smelleable rememoratijf signe.

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Bv^v These therfore be named sacramentes, for that in them one thyng is seable, and another vnderstande.

1598 H. Clapham Syn against Holy Ghoste sig. Aij^v The syn seable in this life.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? v. 49 That which cannot be seene, if it be seeable, is no where at all, nor in being.

1697 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens II. 320 They are watchful Eyes..; looking every way unto..the bredths, and lengths of what in all the World are seeable.

1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. i. 8 In that case, we should have no idea of objects as seeable, as hearable, as touchable, or tasteable.

1874 J. Tyndall Addr. Brit. Assoc. 81 This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind.

1896 Duke of Argyll Philos. Belief 43 We cannot even think of it as seen or seeable.

1952 ‘C. Brand’ London Particular iv. 44 I don't know whether she's seeable. She's going out.

a1969 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody (1992) 98 At the other end of it just barely seeable was an old wood church.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 June When you post something really damaging..about someone online, it's searchable and seeable.

1802 R. Southey Let. 24 Aug. in New Lett. (1965) I. 282 My guest,..to whom I have been showing all the seeables of Bristol.

1918 Hearst's Mag. Aug. 79/2 The makers of soap, paint, cereals, tires, shoes, and a thousand other wearables, smokeables, eatables, seeables and usables.

1934 Oakparker (Oak Park, Illinois) 18 May 36/1 To see..the World's Fair and all the other seeables.

1985 I. Fast et al. Event Theory ii. 42 The finger that is a graspable in one scheme, and a seeable in another, is objectively the same finger.

2011 F. Erickson in M. G. Sherin et al. Math. Teacher Noticing ii. 21 Attention to some potential seeables and hearables was combined with disattending to other potential objects of attention.

1830 J. Bowring Poetry of Magyars Introd. p. ix Látható, seeable; láthatoság, seeableness.

1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. 123 These qualities which we perceive, seeableness or colour, handleableness or shape, taste, smell, &c.

2002 Human Stud. 25 188 There is an act of seeing, an object seen, and the seeableness of the pen.

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Hiv^v Manye dyd worshyp..Christ as beyng seably conuersant emonge them.

1885 F. W. L. Adams Leicester II. v. iii. 241 It is foolish to feel the presence of the ghostly or something seeably unseen here.

2001 G. H. Lerner in C. E. Ford et al. Lang. Turn & Sequence (2002) ix. 230 The gesture is seeably a feature of the quoted exchange.