tangible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being treated as fact

   Tangible evidence.

2. 2
   adj

   perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch

   Skin with a tangible roughness.

3. 3
   adj

   having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value, of especially business assets

   Tangible property like real estate can fluctuate in value.

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Simplified etymology

Tangible entered English in the late sixteenth century and comes from the same Latin source as tact, which derives from tactus, “touch” or “sense of touch,” and ultimately from tangere, “to touch.”

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)

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