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subsumable

subsumable

8.4
Able to be put into a larger group, like a category
  • adjective
  • /səbˈsjuːməbl/
translation icon : subsumible
  • All relevant studies are considered subsumable under the broader topic of climate change.

Examples

  • Her talents are subsumable into the various roles she plays in the community.

  • There is a broad range of credentials subsumable beneath the rubric of "financial advisor."

    Blog text (23)
  • With respect to scientific matters, what is valuable in pluralist work is readily subsumable within public choice.

    Academic text (1994)
  • To a Romantic way of thinking, nature lies beyond the walls of the city, and human nature is primarily to be found within an individual self, not subsumable into the conventions of culture.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Moreover, that shift provides an alternative to the excruciating philosophical task of developing categories enabling us to treat different situations as subsumable under one commensurate framework within which relative worth can be assessed.

    Academic text (1998)
  • For historians who adhere to such a view, a field of study is revealed, as White shows, "to be a set of essentially autonomous particulars subsumable under no general rule" (Tropics 63).

    Academic text (1991)
  • When we confront the startling fact that existence isn't subsumable under any overarching interpretation but simply is, we are left with an irreducible mystery about why we are here or exist at all; and mystery serves at least as well as purpose to inspire spiritual experience.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Both classes—the historical one and the theoretical one—are, of course, subsumable under a certain number of (historical or theoretical) classes, and both themselves subsume a certain number of classes.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Many different types of plants are subsumable within the larger category of flora.

Synonyms

includible
vssubsumable
1 5.1

Can be added to a list or counted in a total

is placed within a larger category rather than just fitting in
includable
vssubsumable
3.5

Something you can add to a list, plan, or budget

is classified into a larger category rather than merely joined to something

Surface Forms

subsumable positive

Morphology

subsumable = subsume (transparent) = subsume + able

Standard adjective formation by adding the productive suffix '-able' to the verb 'subsume', yielding 'able to be subsumed'.

Etymology

Subsumable comes from the parts sub- 'under' and sumere 'to take'. So, if something is subsumable it can be 'taken under' or included in a larger group, which is why we use the word when one thing fits inside a bigger category, like how 'assume' or 'consume' come from the same 'take' root.