sunderableadj.
/ˈsʌnd(ə)rəbl/, U.S. /ˈsənd(ə)rəb(ə)l/ That may be sundered or split apart; separable, divisible.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > capable of separation > able to be separated
departable1377
separable1393
severable1548
exemptitious1667
dissociable1833
sunderable1849
1849 Christian Union & Relig. Memorial Aug. 454/2 They are all, except possibly in some of their consequences, temporal, sunderable, perishable, at death!
1885 J. E. Harrison Stud. Greek Art v. 227 In Plato's ideal philosophy, truth, beauty, and goodness are scarcely sunderable.
1978 Rev. Metaphysics 32 164 The easily sunderable connection between smoke and fire.
2014 D. Came Nietzsche on Art & Life v. 110 To regard each as essentially sunderable from the other would be to occlude the capacity of each to break itself asunder.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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