'alterable' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means capable of being changed or modified. Example: The company's policies were alterable to accommodate new market trends.
Once it becomes technologically alterable, as well as increasingly refracted through the language of consumer choice, this "given" quality of kinship is profoundly disrupted.
Developments in reproductive technologies have highlighted another way that the boundaries between the "natural," given domain of kinship and the "cultural," technologically alterable world of science are by no means fixed or impermeable.
For Luther and Lutheranism, the polity of the church has no divine legal characteristics; it is of subordinate significance for the essence of the church, falls under human ordinances, and is therefore alterable.
The effect is like a lucid dream, or like an open-world video game where a player's real decisions are worked out in a virtual and alterable realm.
And while some politicians say this takes the conversation beyond class – that class is fixed, whereas cycles of deprivation caused by neglect are alterable – it is unarguable that this scrutiny would never extend to the middle class.
Both camps agree that the conception of tragedy turns on a number of distinctions - "between fate and chance, free will and destiny, inner flaw and outer circumstance, the noble and the ignoble, blindness and insight, historical and universal, the alterable and the inevitable, the truly tragic and the merely piteous, heroic defiance and ignominious inertia".
Until we realise this isn't purely about the individual (or the nanny state for that matter) but is actually about a multitude of alterable factors (and we have the will to change them) we will make little progress.
Angela somehow understood, not just theoretically but sensuously and imaginatively, that we were living with constructs of ourselves, neither false nor true but mythical and alterable.
Its key recommendation was that the UK should adopt the principle of self-definition when it comes to gender, meaning that legal sex would cease to be decided by physical sex and only alterable by medically and socially transitioning to some degree.
It's all so framed by the sense that reality doesn't exist any more, or at least not in a way that is alterable or questioning.
They can tell you how best to finish a seam to make a dress alterable, how much a blouse should really cost, why velvet never sells.
