passible

[pas-uh-buh l]

adjective

capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.

Origin of passible

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word passibilis. See passion, -ible

Related formspas·si·bil·i·ty, nounnon·pas·si·ble, adjective

Can be confusedpassable passible

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Examples from the Web for passible

Historical Examples of passible

Qualities, because they change, matter must be passible, iii.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4
Plotinos (Plotinus)
Passible, "obedient and passible" (M33,a), able to feel or suffer.
Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
Various
He has opened the way and made it passible, and now invites all to come and find pardon; and sets the time when they should come.
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward
T. G. Steward
Passible, pas′i-bl, adj. susceptible of suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Various
The disciples of Thales and Pythagoras grant that all bodies are passible and divisible into infinity.
Essays and Miscellanies
Plutarch

British Dictionary definitions for passible

passible

adjective

susceptible to emotion or suffering; able to feel

Derived Formspassibility, noun

Word Origin for passible

C14: from Medieval Latin passibilis, from Latin patī to suffer; see passion

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