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touchable, a.|ˈtʌtʃəb(ə)l|
[f. touch v. + -able.]
Capable of being touched.
1. a. Affecting the sense of touch; tangible.
c1400Wyclif's Bible Heb. xii. 18 Ȝe han not come to the tretable fyer, or able for to touche [v.r. or toucheable]. 1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath ii. 18 The truest touchestone, of all properties, trying both toucheable and tasteable qualities. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §469. 135 To the end that things touchable may in lying down gently affect us. 1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind (1869) I. 13 In that case, we should have no idea of objects as seeable, as hearable, as touchable, or tasteable.
b. Fit to be touched or tasted. nonce-use.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. lxxxvii. 1881Black Beautiful Wretch, etc. III. 177 The butter was not touchable.
2. Capable of being affected in mind or feeling.
1822Examiner 154/2 Every mind touchable by musical sounds. 1890Church Union (N.Y.) May, Such of our readers as are touchable by the appeal of this writer.
Hence touchaˈbility, suitability to be touched; ˈtouchableness.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 66 Also visiblenesse, touchablenesse, which are inseparable both in state of mortalitie, and in the state of glory. 1674Blount Glossogr., Tangibility, touchableness. 1937L. MacNeice in Essays & Stud. XXII. 157 Spender..believes in ‘touchability’... It means..the belief that people in themselves are worth knowing and touching, just as for Auden facts are worth remembering. 1944[see marriageability]. |