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Sensable vs Agreeable - What's the difference?

sensable | agreeable |

As adjectives the difference between sensable and agreeable

is that sensable is capable of being sensed; perceptible, tangible while agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.

As a noun agreeable is

something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.

sensable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being sensed; perceptible, tangible.
  • * 2011 , E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Stephen Goldin, Getaway World
    • Although his mind remained aware that he was physically seated within a sensable booth, all his senses told him that he was experiencing the story that was happening around him.
  • * 2010 , "American" (username), Great, Intellegent Brain Twister, Yahoo Movies, 2010-07-20, accessed on 2011-10-26:
    • Put on your thinking cap and go see an intellegent(SIC), intensly(SIC) well thought out noir/science fiction film with a plot that makes sensable , practical use of phenominal(SIC) special effects.

    agreeable

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
    • agreeable manners
    agreeable remarks
    an agreeable person
    fruit agreeable to the taste
  • * (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
    • A train of agreeable reveries.
  • (colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
  • * (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
    • These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
  • Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
  • * (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
    • That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
  • In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
    • Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

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