composable

adjective

com·​pos·​able kəm-ˈpō-zə-bəl 

1

: capable of being set to music

The search for song texts was his entire reason for reading poetry; whatever his appreciation of literary merit, he placed poems that were not composable into a different category than those that were amenable to music—his music.

—Susan Youens, Hugo Wolf and His Mörike Songs, 2000

2

: capable of being composed

… music expressive of a feeling is clearly composable by one who is not experiencing that feeling and has perhaps never experienced it …

—Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1998

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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