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Palpable

adjective

Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt. Synonym: tangible. "Felt sudden anger in a palpable wave" , "The air was warm and close--palpable as cotton" , "A palpable lie"

Can be felt by palpation.

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"Palpable" Quotes from Famous Books

... kept the window open. Some one must have waded into the water in the dark and stolen it. Perhaps one of the bandsmen may have noticed the flashing of the diamonds on her wrist and returned to secure the bracelet—there's no saying. The only too palpable fact is that it is gone—it was valued ...

— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade

... the change absurdly. Nevertheless, that a change had taken place was palpable. The arresting radiance, the vivid physical perfection of her, had gone. She was thin, and with the thinness had come lines—lines of fatigue, and other, more lasting lines born of endurance and self-control. The pliant symmetry ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... gentle, innocuous little thing about "Twain and one flesh," and all that sort of thing, I don't try to crush that man into the earth—no. I feel like saying: "Let me take you by the hand, sir; let me embrace you; I have not heard that pun for weeks." We will deal in palpable puns. We will call parties named King "Your Majesty," and we will say to the Smiths that we think we have heard that name before somewhere. Such is human nature. We cannot alter this. It is God that made us so for some good and wise purpose. Let us ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... an access of ardour I returned to my business in town; But, as life seemed each day to grow harder, I despaired of its joy and its crown; Till, fed up with a "tale" for poor Tommies, My temper I finally lost, And pronounced that oracular "promise" A palpable frost. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 • Various

... neighbourhood of a solitary tree is a positive nuisance. It creates a violent eddy of wind, that leaves palpable evidence of its existence. Thus, in corn-fields, it is a common result of a storm to batter the corn quite flat in circles round each tree that stands in the field, while elsewhere no injury takes place. ...

— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

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