Meanings of palpability in English

Then the stars bloom out, with a flame, an hallucinating palpability.

Spirit in it had taken substance; the subtlest emotions of the soul a shape and palpability.

The majority consisted of palpability and visibility.

Why did these antithetical forces emerge into palpability only when the past, present and future somehow-for whatever reason -got superimposed?

They finally walked upon the spreading prairie, and as they walked the smell took on a metallic palpability, a foreboding essence.

"The 'palpability of history,' " he said, rolling it over his tongue.

There would always be a sufficient proportion of unborn fools left who would prefer the palpabilities of bodily form to the insubstantialities of pre-natal existence.

"I don't know how any man could feel his eyes burn in the electric light and not also feel the sudden palpability of history."