different between categorical vs palpable

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:

     Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Etymology

From Middle French palpable and its source, Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?palp?b?l/
• (US) enPR: p?l'p?-b?l, IPA^(key): /?pælp?b?l/

Adjective

palpable (comparative more palpable, superlative most palpable)

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

   Synonyms: tangible, touchable

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, scene 2:

     Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.

   • 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia":

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

   • 1894, Bret Harte, "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories:

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

2. Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.

   Synonyms: manifest, noticeable, patent

   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu chapter 24:

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

   • 1916, Kathleen Norris, The Heart of Rachael, chapter 7:

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

3. (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.

Derived terms

• palpably

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p?l?pa.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pal?pa.ble/

Adjective

palpable (masculine and feminine plural palpables)

1. palpable

Derived terms

• palpablement

Further reading

• “palpable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palpable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “palpable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palpable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.pabl/

Adjective

palpable (plural palpables)

1. palpable

   Antonym: impalpable

Derived terms

• palpablement

Further reading

• “palpable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

palpable m or f (plural palpables)

1. touchable; palpable

References

• “palpable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin palp?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?pable/, [pal?pa.??le]

Adjective

palpable (plural palpables)

1. palpable

Derived terms

• palpablemente

Further reading

• “palpable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.