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perceptibility|pəˌsɛptɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[f. next: see -ity. Cf. F. perceptibilité (Diderot, 18th c.).]
†1. Capacity or faculty of perceiving; perceptivity. Obs.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. li, That spright hath no perceptibility Of his impressions. 1662J. Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., Apol. conc. Perfect. 31 Through which Voyce, the Will in the Impression generateth..also perceptibility and feeling, viz. the eternall Nature.
2. Capability of being perceived.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 718 The very essence of truth here is this clear perceptibility or intelligibility. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 311 We must look for some other property in body rendering it perceivable, and this we may call perceptibility... Whether spirit has the like perceptibility too, we can never certainly know. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. v. i. §6 According to the number of rays transmitted is the perceptibility of objects below the water. |