palpability
Able to touch
Palpability is the quality of being palpable—able to be touched or felt, or so obvious it seems physical.
A doctor checks for the palpability of a lump.
In figurative use, palpability describes how real or intense something feels: the palpability of the tension in the room, the palpability of her grief.
State of being consequential
- substancePhysical material with mass
- concretenessQuality of being solid
- solidityFirmness of structure
- physicalityBodily, material quality
corporeality · tactility · substantiality · texture · firmness · heft · weight · density
Easily perceived or observed
- evidentClearly perceived or understood
- discernibleAble to be noticed
- apparentClearly seen or understood
- observableCapable of being detected
manifest · obvious · detectable · recognizable · distinct · pronounced · marked · conspicuous
Intense clarity or lifelikeness
- acutenessIntensity or keenness
- sharpnessKeenness of edge, mind, or image
- poignancyPiercing emotional quality
- immediacyQuality of being direct
urgency · rawness · starkness · keenness · potency · forcefulness · striking · arresting
Stretched or strained state
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- uneaseMild persistent worry
foreboding · excitement · hostility · anxiety · eeriness · heaviness · thickness · oppressiveness
materiality
State of being consequential
- substancePhysical material with mass
- concretenessQuality of being solid
- solidityFirmness of structure
physicality · corporeality · tactility · substantiality · texture · firmness · heft · weight · density · presence
noticeable
Easily perceived or observed
- evidentClearly perceived or understood
- discernibleAble to be noticed
- apparentClearly seen or understood
observable · manifest · obvious · detectable · recognizable · distinct · pronounced · marked · conspicuous · unmistakable
vividness
Intense clarity or lifelikeness
- acutenessIntensity or keenness
- sharpnessKeenness of edge, mind, or image
- poignancyPiercing emotional quality
immediacy · urgency · rawness · starkness · keenness · potency · forcefulness · striking · arresting · gripping
tension
Stretched or strained state
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- anticipationState of awaiting something
unease · foreboding · excitement · hostility · anxiety · eeriness · heaviness · thickness · oppressiveness · electricity
- visibilityvisibility, visible, invisible, hidden, hide
- surgical complicationsbleeding, infection, hemorrhage, wound infection, bruising
palpabilityimpalpability
Inability to be touched
intangibility · incorporeality · immateriality · insubstantiality · etherealness
palpabilityimperceptibility
Quality beyond sensory detection
obscurity · invisibility · elusiveness · ambiguity · vagueness
palpabilityabstractness
Quality of being nonphysical
intangibility · fantasy · unreality · immateriality · ideality
palpable, impalpable, palpitate, palpitation, palpably, palpate, palpation