perceptibility

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They, as if doubting their own perceptibilities, draw nearer and nearer, straining their eyes, while their bodies oscillate against each other.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

The manner in which it grounded itself on the first landing grated discordantly on Mr. Neverbend's finer perceptibilities.

From The Three Clerks by Trollope, Anthony

Yet Patsy’s mind balked at accepting it; it was too galling to her pride, too slanderous of her past judgment and perceptibilities.

From Seven Miles to Arden by Sawyer, Ruth

A collection of poems in the usual sense, a variety of themes artistically treated and appealing to our æsthetic perceptibilities alone, it is not.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

The following words each appear once, and are left unchanged: "cathechism;" "effulgency;" "engraven;" "jesuitical;" "Macris;" "Oricular;" "perceptibilities."

From Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light by Fresenborg, Bernard