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Plausible vs Palpable - What's the difference?

plausible | palpable |

As adjectives the difference between plausible and palpable

is that plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse while palpable is capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.

plausible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
  • *
    • In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
  • Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
    • a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
  • Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
    • a plausible speaker
  • (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
    • (Bishop Hacket)

    Derived terms

    * plausibility

    palpable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
  • * (William Shakespeare), Hamlet , act 5, sc. 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.
  • Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,
  • * 1913 , (Sax Rohmer), The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu ch. 24:
    • Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
  • * 1916 , (Kathleen Norris), The Heart of Rachael , ch. 7:
    • No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
  • (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.

    • Synonyms

    * (capable of being touched) tangible, touchable * (obvious or easily perceived) manifest, noticeable, patent