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Tastable vs Tactable - What's the difference?

tastable | tactable |

As adjectives the difference between tastable and tactable

is that tastable is that can be tasted, that can be detected by one's sense of taste while tactable is (obsolete) capable of being touched; tangible.

tastable

English

Alternative forms

* tasteable

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That can be tasted, that can be detected by one's sense of taste.

    • References

    * 2007', Günter Radden, René Dirven, ''Cognitive English grammar'', page 284: "Conversion predicates of perception tend to be coded as adjectives: ''visible'', ''audible'', ''palpable'' and ''tangible'', but English lacks adjectives such as ''*smellable'' and '''''*tastable for something that can be smelled or tasted."

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    tactable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Capable of being touched; tangible.
    • They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable . — Massinger.
    (Webster 1913)