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Word that means "something that can be abbreviated"

English Language & Usage Asked on December 12, 2020

The two answers that spring to mind are “abbreviable” and “abbreviatable,” however neither of them feel correct. Searching the Internet has yielded no conclusive results – dictionaries seem to contain no entries for this, and people seem to restructure their sentence to avoid this problem. Trying to find usage of the two candidates I thought of is just as inconclusive, with no definitions or accepted standard.

Is there a correct answer? A single word is preferable.

An example in English would be “The phrase ‘I don’t know’ is abbreviable to ‘IDK’.”

The original intended usage is for a Python project. Using more than one word for this would be too verbose.

class AbbreviatableIdentifier:
    ...

One Answer

The word "abbreviable" is synonymous with "abbreviateable", so your example is correct.

From Wikitionary:

abbreviable (adjective): Able to be abbreviated.

That said, you don't have to use full words while programming. A function name like "AbbrID" would have enough context clues to key in a reader to what the function does without being too verbose to type each time you need it.

Answered by JRodge01 on December 12, 2020

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