When something is palpable, you can touch or handle it, even though the word is often used to describe things that usually can't be handled or touched, such as emotions or sensations.
Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch;
Adjective
capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt; "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and close--palpable as cotton"
Adjective S.
can be felt by palpation; "a palpable tumor"
a.
Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the
touch; as, a palpable form.
a.
Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily
perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable
absurdity; palpable errors.
Palpable
Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness.2.
[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.--
Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch;
Usage Examples
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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Other Usage ExamplesPopular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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