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palpable

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1. palpable - Adjective

2. palpable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.

Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. Baron d'Holbach

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. George Orwell

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. Lysander Spooner

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