palpably

Easily perceptible by the mind. Capable of being touched. But if this idea was not, even then, altogether adopted, I could at least doubt no longer, when, arising from the bed, tottering, with feeble steps, with closed eyes, and with the manner of one bewildered in a dream, the thing that was enshrouded advanced boldly and **//palpably//** into the middle of the apartment.