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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility.
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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?"
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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?"
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Only Beynor remained solidly upright, the terrible radiance of his magical tool now paled almost to imperceptibility.
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A faint, tantalizing odor right at the edge of imperceptibility.
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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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