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PALPABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does palpability mean?
• PALPABILITY (noun)
The noun PALPABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being perceivable by touch
Familiarity information: PALPABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being perceivable by touch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
palpability; tangibility; tangibleness
Hypernyms ("palpability" is a kind of...):
corporality; corporeality; materiality; physicalness (the quality of being physical; consisting of matter)
Antonym:
impalpability (the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch)
Derivation:
palpable ((medicine) can be felt by palpation)
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