I'm looking for a word to describe something that can be physically passed through like a ghost, mist, or a gas. Initially, I was thinking of the work transparent, but I feel like this is better used to describe something that is see through.
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Borrowing from Carl Sagan's The Dragon in My Garage, which suggests this word for specters:
(Definition from Merriam-Webster.)
I have to take issue with permeable. A sieve is permeable, a sponge is permeable, but unless you're a molecule or a virus or something similarly small you can't pass through.