Perceptible vs Palpable - What's the difference?
perceptible | palpable | Related terms |
Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
* (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 5, sc. 2:
* 1838 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "Ligeia":
* 1894 , (Bret Harte), "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories :
Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
* 1913 , (Sax Rohmer), The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu ch. 24:
* 1916 , (Kathleen Norris), The Heart of Rachael , ch. 7:
(medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
As adjectives the difference between perceptible and palpable
is that perceptible is able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned while palpable is capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.As a noun perceptible
is anything that can be perceived.perceptible
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(en adjective)palpable
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(en adjective)- Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
- I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
- The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable , horizontally driving rain.
- Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
- No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
