observablyadv.
/əbˈzəːvəbli/, U.S. /əbˈzərvəbli/ Noticeably, perceptibly, appreciably.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb]
visiblyc1380
in semblancea1400
perceivablyc1526
seeably1548
observably1640
perceptibly1644
discernibly1645
perceivedly1659
viewably1680
distinguishably1704
perceptible1755
traceably1855
1640 R. Brathwait Two Lancs. Lovers i. 18 Yet shall we finde in the posterity of prompt and pregnant Parents..whatsoever they see worthily observed, or observably presented.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1657/3 Your Declaration, dated the eighth of April last; which very observably allayed the contemptuous contagion that began to reinfect the credulous and unstable.
1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 63 It may be drank without provoking Urine observably.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 8 A primary law of human nature, still everywhere observably at work.
1889 Science June 15/2 The inclined planes of the circles described should be observably related to the direction, etc., of the wind.
1931 Philos. Rev. 40 560 Peter's birth is observably simultaneous with an event having a certain date.
1997 Jrnl. Black Stud. 27 145 There is nothing observably wrong with this descriptive comparison.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1640