Meanings
comparative more unmeasurable · superlative most unmeasurable
- Not able to be measured; immeasurable.
To begin with, it has been observed that value in Marx's sense is unmeasurable, i.e. it is impossible to state the value of any commodity in units of necessary labour-time.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 325Synonyms: immensurable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot able to be measured; immeasurable.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveimpossible to measure
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishmeasurable
- Englishunmeasurable
From un- + measurable.
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