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Salient vs Palpable - What's the difference?

salient | palpable |

As adjectives the difference between salient and palpable

is that salient is worthy of note; pertinent or relevant while palpable is capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.

As a noun salient

is (military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.

salient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
    • The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
  • Prominent; conspicuous.
  • * Bancroft
    • He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
  • (heraldry, usually of a quadruped) Depicted in a leaping posture.
    • a lion salient
  • Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
    • a salient angle
  • (obsolete) Moving by leaps or springs; jumping.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • frogs and salient animals
  • (obsolete) Shooting out up; springing; projecting.
  • * Burke
    • He had in himself a salient , living spring of generous and manly action.

    Quotations

    {{timeline, 1800s=1878 1898, 1900s=1936}} * 1878 , , Book 2, chapter 5: *: With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy." * 1898 , Book2, chapter 2: *: The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular. * 1936 , : *: Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.

    Antonyms

    * (prominent) obscure, trivial

    Derived terms

    * salient point

    Related terms

    * salience * saliency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military) an outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense

    • Derived terms

    * salient pole

    Anagrams

    * ----

    palpable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
  • * (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 5, sc. 2:
    • Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
  • * 1838 , (Edgar Allan Poe), "Ligeia":
    • I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
  • * 1894 , (Bret Harte), "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories :
    • The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable , horizontally driving rain.
  • Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
  • *
    • , 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:
    • Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
  • * 1916 , (Kathleen Norris), The Heart of Rachael , ch. 7:
    • No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
  • (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.

    • Synonyms

    * (capable of being touched) tangible, touchable * (obvious or easily perceived) manifest, noticeable, patent