1. capable of feeling or suffering; susceptible to sensation or emotion
Usage: formal; philosophical

Examples

• The philosopher argued that humans are passible beings, capable of both joy and sorrow.
• Unlike the impassible divine nature, mortal creatures are passible and vulnerable to pain.
• The doctrine holds that Christ was passible in his human nature.
• Her passible heart was easily moved by tales of suffering.
• The passible soul responds to both pleasure and anguish.