Penetrable vs Pierceable - What's the difference?
penetrable | pierceable |
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
As adjectives the difference between penetrable and pierceable
is that penetrable is penetrable while pierceable is capable of being pierced; penetrable.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.