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Penetrable vs Spongy - What's the difference?

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Penetrable is a related term of spongy.


As adjectives the difference between penetrable and spongy

is that penetrable is penetrable while spongy is having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.

penetrable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
  • * 1867 : , The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World
    • 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.
  • * 1900 : Arthur M. Mann, The Boer in Peace and War
    • 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.
  • * 1996 : Peter Carruthers & Peter K. Smith, Theories of Theories of Mind
    • A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.

    Antonyms

    * impenetrable

    Related terms

    * penetrableness * penetrably

    References

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    spongy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * spongey

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous
    • spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones
  • Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
  • * Shakespeare
    • spongy April

    Derived terms

    * spongy lead * spongy platinum