Synonyms for perceptibility


Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-sep-tuh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsɛp tə bəl


Définition of perceptibility

Origin :
  • early 15c., "perceptive," from Late Latin perceptibilis "perceptible," from Latin percept-, past participle stem of percipere (see perceive). Meaning "capable of being perceived" is from c.1600. Related: Perceptibly; perceptibility.
  • noun visibility
Example sentences :
  • But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
  • Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
  • Perceptibility or conceivability are, then, the two forms which reality may assume.
  • Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet
  • If desired, the gradation of intensities here employed may be refined to the threshold of perceptibility, or beyond it.
  • Extract from : « Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 » by Various

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