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Responsive vs Permeable - What's the difference?

responsive | permeable |

As adjectives the difference between responsive and permeable

is that responsive is answering, replying or responding while permeable is permeable.

responsive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Answering, replying or responding.
  • Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  • Using antiphons; antiphonal.
  • Susceptible to the feelings of others.
  • (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
  • (obsolete) responsible
  • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Antonyms

    * nonresponsive * unresponsive

    Derived terms

    * responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----

    permeable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to substance, substrate, membrane or material that absorbs or allows the passage of fluids.
  • Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.

    Synonyms

    * water-permeable

    Antonyms

    * impermeable