perceptibility

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This is the effect of love, as being the heat of life, to prevent its extinction, and with it the extinction of all cheerfulness, vivacity, and perceptibility of delight, grounded in its own love.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

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

In this section we can describe its nature only from the point of view of perceptibility.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the form of the body, by arresting the body's perceptibility, and by inhibiting the eye's power of sight, there comes the power to make the body invisible.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles

Now, according to the number of rays reflected is the force of the image of objects above, and according to the number of rays transmitted is the perceptibility of objects below the water.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John