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palpable
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    "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.  (source)
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    Now, thinking about the feeling of fear as he pedaled home along the river path, he remembered that moment of palpable, stomach-sinking terror when the aircraft had streaked above.  (source)
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    A sense of excitement rose like a palpable cloud over the campsite as the afternoon wore on.  (source)
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    ...her disapproval was palpable.  (source)
    palpable = very apparent
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    With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field.  (source)
    impalpable = insubstantial (too tiny to see)
    standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impalpable means not and reverses the meaning of palpable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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    On at least two occasions I stopped cases where to my mind the accused was palpably innocent, directing the jury that there was no case.  (source)
    palpably = very apparently or obviously
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    All I had to do was to imagine them, and how I "knew" them would shimmer around them and through them, a light, an odor, a sound, a taste, a palpability that was all there was to understand about each and every one of them.†  (source)
    palpability = the quality of being very apparent
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    Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very blinding palpableness must have been the cause.†  (source)
    palpableness = state or degree of being very apparent
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.†  (source)
    impalpability = the quality of being imperceptible
    standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impalpability means not and reverses the meaning of palpability. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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    Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.  (source)
    palpable = apparent or obvious
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    From where he stood he could see the whole valley through an impalpable mist that rose from the earth the night rain had soaked.†  (source)
    impalpable = not perceptible or insubstantial
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    "Good," the old man said as the tension in the common room ebbed palpably, "excellent."†  (source)
    palpably = in a very apparent way
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    One might say that the figure of this "Kirghiz" emerged imperceptibly out of the foe and into his life, slowly taking on clarity and palpability, until the moment when he was most near, most physically present, there in the schoolyard, stood there in the foreground for a while, and then gradually receded and vanished again into the fog, without even the pain of farewell.†  (source)
    palpability = the quality of being very apparent
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