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Palpable vs Unabashed - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between palpable and unabashed

is that palpable is capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible while unabashed is not disconcerted or embarrassed.

palpable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
  • * (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 5, sc. 2:
  • Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
  • * 1838 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "Ligeia":
  • I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
  • * 1894 , (Bret Harte), "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories :
  • The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable , horizontally driving rain.
  • Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
  • * 1913 , (Sax Rohmer), The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu ch. 24:
  • Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
  • * 1916 , (Kathleen Norris), The Heart of Rachael , ch. 7:
  • No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
  • (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
  • Synonyms

    * (capable of being touched) tangible, touchable * (obvious or easily perceived) manifest, noticeable, patent

    unabashed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
  • *1866 , ,
  • *:For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed .
  • *1919 , ",
  • *:Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
  • That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
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  • *1920 , ,
  • *:; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.
  • Synonyms

    * abashless, composed, poised, undaunted, unaffected, unshamed * abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained