perceptibility

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A proof of the great reduction in atmospheric glare was afforded by the perceptibility of the corona four minutes after totality was over.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

But although we may take the peculiar organization of their olfactory organs as being partly the cause of this keen perceptibility, we must in a great measure attribute this perfection to their mode of living.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

As to the argument drawn from dreams and hallucinations which might be brought against this, I have shown how it is set aside by a distinction between perceptibility and truth.

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

If desired, the gradation of intensities here employed may be refined to the threshold of perceptibility, or beyond it.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo

After some time, however, Aleck began snuffing the air, and, with evident concern, announced the approach of a mist, which soon thickened into perceptibility to me also.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert