Timeline for To hear something makes it audible, to see is visible, so what are touch and smell?
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| Apr 4, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I would have said "smelly". | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 20:15 | comment | added | Kyle Cureau | Tangible is correct, but it's often used to discuss the concreteness of a concept or feeling. Consider describing a nanobot sitting on the tip of your finger. Is it "barely tangible" or "barely tactile"? Tangible might carry two meanings: (1) beyond your ability to perceive such a magnificent creation, (2) beyond your ability to perceive it through touch. Tactile is more clear in this case. //////// I like olfactible if you're cornered into you using it. "She stuck her nose even deeper into the blossoms insisting that beauty is always olfactible." Haha, maybe. | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 18:07 | vote | accept | bizzehdee | ||
| Aug 12, 2013 at 15:31 | comment | added | John Lawler | Tangible is very common, and touchable, hearable, seeable are possible, though less common, in special contexts. Olfactable is very rare, though it may exist in dictionaries; I think most people, if they reached for a single word (with no pejoration like stink, reek, smell), would say "smellable". The sense verbs don't have all possible terms available. | |
| Aug 12, 2013 at 14:26 | history | answered | Frank H. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |