Definition of "conceivableness" []

• The state or quality of being conceivable. (noun)

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• "But such an _abstract_ conceivableness has not the least value for the knowledge of the _real_, nor even for the knowledge of the _really possible_."
• "The real causes of such a heterogenetic generation, if it took place at all, have not yet been found; therefore we have to treat only of the abstract possibilities of its conceivableness."
• "Zöllner is certainly right when, in his work which appeared before the lecture of DuBois-Reymond, he puts the alternative, "either to renounce forever the conceivableness of the phenomena of sensation, or hypothetically to add to the common qualities of matter one more, which places the simplest and most elementary transactions of nature under a process of sensation, legitimately connected with it;" as also when he says"