Penetrating vs Penetrable - What's the difference?
penetrating | penetrable |
able to pierce or penetrate
demonstrating acute or keen understanding
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 penetrating and penetrable
is that penetrating is able to pierce or penetrate while penetrable is capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.As a verb penetrating
is present participle of lang=en.penetrating
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
- His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.
Verb
(head)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.