perceptibility

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In other instances the assurance given by the sign consists in its perceptibility and corporeality; so that the word assumes, as it were, flesh and blood.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

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)

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

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