palpable

adj

1. Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.

   “Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.”

   “The imagination shuns to reveal its workings, unless it can clothe them in some lovely and palpable shape, and create into existence the high romance, the mournful song, the animated canvass, or the carved marble;...”

   “I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.”

   “The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain.”

   “[T]he gondolas stole in and out of the opaque distance more noiselessly and dreamily than ever; and a silence, almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world.”

2. (figuratively)Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.

   “Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.”

   “Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.”

   “No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.”

   “Suppose we ignore the two palpable suspects—yourself and the attendant. Now who else might it have been?”

   “By Thursday, there was a palpable sense of frustration with the opposition’s strategy on the streets of Caracas, people in the capital said.”

3. That can be detected by palpation.