Penetrable vs Penetrative - What's the difference?
penetrable | penetrative |
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
* 1867 : , The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
* 1900 : Arthur M. Mann, The Boer in Peace and War
* 1996 : Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith, Theories of Theories of Mind
Of, pertaining to, or involving penetration
Having the ability to penetrate
Displaying insight or discrimination; acute
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As adjectives the difference between penetrable and penetrative
is that penetrable is capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced while penetrative is of, pertaining to, or involving penetration.penetrable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- On the east the high mountain-chain of Zagros, penetrable only in one or two places, forms a barrier of the most marked character, and is beyond a doubt the natural limit for which we are looking.
- A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all.
- A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.
