perceptibility

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They recognise perceptibility, "And a competent inferribility of the individual thing is its imposition of its form."

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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)

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

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

Visibility -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness, distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity†, conspicuousness; appearance &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark