palpability
- n the quality of being perceivable by touch
- The sensation is the same with old black-and-white films like The Third Man, where the Vienna streets gleam with an almost erotic palpability.
- Born in 1891, he became an Acmeist, one of a group of poets who reacted against the excess vagaries of the Symbolists by celebrating the palpability of things in clear, earthy .