passible

[ pas-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈpæs ə bəl /

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adjective

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

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Origin of passible

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

OTHER WORDS FROM passible

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

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH passible

passable, passible

Words nearby passible

passeriform, passerine, pas seul, pass-fail, pass for, passible, passifloraceous, passim, passing, passing bell, passing lane

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How to use passible in a sentence

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
Sense organs, sense better without medium however passible, iv.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4|Plotinos (Plotinus)
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

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

/ (ˈpæsɪbəl) /

adjective

susceptible to emotion or suffering; able to feel

Derived forms of passible

passibility, noun

Word Origin for passible

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

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