Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being perceived; capable of coming under the cognizance of the senses; perceivable; noticeable.
  • Synonyms Visible, discernible, noticeable. See sensible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being perceived by the mind or senses
  • adjective easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
  • adjective easily seen or detected

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin perceptus, past participle of percipere, to perceive; see perceive.]

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Examples

  • We are a profoundly egalitarian society, and the roots of this are perceptible from the very origins.

    The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project 2001

  • Some authors extend the notion of writing even further and call terminus scriptus “a term perceptible by senses other than haering” (terminus alio sensu quam auditu perceptibilis) (Peter Margallus, Log. utriusque scholia,

    Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003

  • At first this was done in a manner so perceptible, that is to say, God penetrated us with Himself in a manner so pure and so sweet, that we passed hours in this profound silence, always communicative, without being able to utter one word.

    Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

  • And we have not seen any kind of perceptible change.

    CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005 2005

  • Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • a manner so perceptible, that is to say, God penetrated us with Himself in a manner so pure and so sweet, that we passed hours in this profound silence, always communicative, without being able to utter one word.

    The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon 1682

  • This is what we all admit in practice; the smallest of our acts implies the belief in something perceptible which is wider and more durable than our astonished perceptions.

    The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884

  • This is why it is not right to say that pleasure is perceptible process, but it should rather be called activity of the natural state, and instead of 'perceptible' 'unimpeded'.

    The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

  • Enclosed is Scottie’s little story—she had just read Gertrude Stein’s Melanctha on my recommendation and the influence is what you might call perceptible.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • Enclosed is Scottie’s little story—she had just read Gertrude Stein’s Melanctha on my recommendation and the influence is what you might call perceptible.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

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