PALPABILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being perceivable by touch

Synonyms:

palpability; tangibility; tangibleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)