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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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    Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.  (source)
    palpable = apparent or obvious
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    A sense of excitement rose like a palpable cloud over the campsite as the afternoon wore on.  (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)
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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)
    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)
    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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    "Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.  (source)
    palpable = so pronounced, it seemed almost to take a material form that could be touched
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    We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, — the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man — perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!†  (source)
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    But the drops were palpably water, and as they fell, the wind grew stronger and stronger, and suddenly — probably because of the tremendous convection set up by the blazing city — a whirlwind ripped through the park.†  (source)
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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)
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