perceptibility

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But the distinctness of objects, i. e., the perceptibility of a light-impression, depends also upon the absolute brightness and the differences in brightness.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

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)

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

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

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