feelable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being felt through touch, sensation, or emotion

   The vibration was faint but still feelable through the floor.

2. 2
   noun

   philosophy or psychology: something apprehended as a feeling, as contrasted with a sensible object

   The quoted classification distinguishes bodily sensibles from emotional feelables.

Formed in English from feel + -able. The ordinary adjective means capable of being felt; philosophers and psychologists have occasionally nominalized it as a technical counterpart to sensible.

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