Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of being imperceptible; imperceptibleness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being imperceptible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
imperceptible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being imperceptible by the mind or the senses
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Examples
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Personally, I feel these ads should be left alone to fade into imperceptibility, which is part of their natural life cycle.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID W. DUNLAP 2011
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Dropping the shoulder and shifting his weight with the speed and imperceptibility that made it impossible to react to, he cut inside and away from Sami Khedira, before threading an immaculate pass through the gap for Iniesta to run on to.
Cesc Fábregas starts with a night to remember at Barcelona 2011
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The dynamic stillness between particle and wave is where we confront the wavicle: an awareness of the imperceptibility of the power of the symbol delivering a new aesthetic to the avant-garde.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Modernist (R)evolution in Performance: Ralph Lemon's Middle Passage Lisa Paul Streitfeld 2010
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The intimacy, the silence, the imperceptibility of the corporeal crossover, the secrecy with which the breath, the spirit, escapes the body — all of this unspoken and unspeakable quality enters into Severn's deathbed portrait.
Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009
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It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility.
Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility.
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility.
"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" Ann Althouse 2007
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Only Beynor remained solidly upright, the terrible radiance of his magical tool now paled almost to imperceptibility.
Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003
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A faint, tantalizing odor right at the edge of imperceptibility.
Persuader Child, Lee 2003
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Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible.
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