Diagnosable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Capable of being identified and classified through medical evaluation or analysis
2. Able to be determined as a specific condition or disease based on symptoms and tests conducted
3. Susceptible to recognition and assessment by healthcare professionals during a clinical examination

Etymology: Diagnosable is a plain compound: the English noun "diagnose" with the suffix "-able" attached, meaning able to be diagnosed. The suffix itself has a long pedigree. It descends from a Latin ending "-ābilis", which passed into Old French as "-able" and then into Middle English, where it became a productive way of making adjectives from verbs. The base word traces back to Ancient Greek "diagignōskein", built from "dia-", meaning "through" or "apart", and "gignōskein", meaning "to know" or "to recognise". The sense of discerning something by looking through its signs gave Greek "diagnōsis", which Latin took over as "diagnōsis". English borrowed it as "diagnosis" and later created the verb "diagnose" from it. Diagnosable followed from that verb, using the existing English suffix rather than a classical borrowing.

Synonyms: identifiable, detectable, recognizable, discernible, observable

Antonyms: indeterminable, unidentifiable, unrecognizable, invisible, undetectable