All 8 Uses of
palpable
in
Interview with the Vampire
- And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their tangibility promised to us, wrongly ....wrongly, an immortality.†
Part 1 *palpable = very apparent
- I felt something palpable and helpless in my hands.†
Part 1
- It was palpable, as if it were just yesterday, just behind a door.†
Part 1
- I looked up and saw myself in a most palpable vision ascending the altar steps, opening the tiny sacrosanct tabernacle, reaching with monstrous hands for the consecrated ciborium, and taking the Body of Christ and strewing Its white wafers all over the carpet; and walking then on the sacred wafers, walking up and down before the altar, giving Holy Communion to the dust.†
Part 1
- The ribbons crushed from the bonnet fell loose and I felt a palpable relief to see the childish dress, those ribbons, and something wonderfully comforting in her arms, a small china doll.†
Part 3
- For a long time he sat in this manner and I could all but feel his thoughts, as if they were palpable in the air like smoke.†
Part 3
- The smell of water filled my nostrils, its coolness palpable through the close heat of the coffin; and then with the smell of the water was the smell of the deep earth.†
Part 3
- I answered no. I remembered palpably that sorrow.†
Part 4palpably = in a very apparent way
Definition:
very apparent (so strong, it almost seems to take a material form that can be touched)
"Palpable" is frequently used to describe the intensity of an emotion shared between people who can see each other. The implication is that the emotion is so strong, it almost takes a material form that can be touched.