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eduren on April 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust 1.17

>palpatable

=palpable + palatable. Pedantry aside though, I like the word. Maybe it describes something can be palpably palatable.

steveklabnik on April 27, 2017 | [–]

Ha! Nice catch. Good thing I'm not like, a person who's paid to write words or anything...

chrismorgan on April 27, 2017 | | [–]

You wrote a word! A new word!

MR_HANDS on April 28, 2017 | [–]

or, palpatable could mean 'able to be palpated', which would mean able to be touched carefully with the intent of inspection, especially in medicine.

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