Penetrable vs Pervious - What's the difference?
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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
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
Penetrable is a related term of pervious.
As adjectives the difference between penetrable and pervious
is that penetrable is penetrable while pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.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.
Antonyms
* impenetrableReferences
*pervious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
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