Definition of Perceptible

1. Adjective. Capable of being perceived by the mind or senses. "Perceptible changes in behavior"


2. Adjective. Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind. "A perceptible sense of expectation in the court"
Similar to: Palpable, Tangible
Derivative terms: Perceive, Perceptibility

3. Adjective. Easily seen or detected. "He continued after a perceptible pause"
Exact synonyms: Detectable
Similar to: Noticeable
Derivative terms: Perceive, Perceptibility

Definition of Perceptible

1. a. Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.

Definition of Perceptible

1. Adjective. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perceptible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perceptible

percentage point
percentage rate
percentage sign
percentages
percental
percenter
percenters
percentile
percentile dice
percentiles
percents
percentual
percept
percept analysis
perceptibility
perceptible (current term)
perceptibleness
perceptibly
perception
perceptional
perceptions
perceptive
perceptive deafness
perceptively
perceptiveness
perceptivities
perceptivity
perceptorium
perceptron
perceptrons

Literary usage of Perceptible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Entities' may be distinguished into perceptible and inferential. An entity, whether perceptible or inferential, is either real or fictitious. ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"In applying the method of just perceptible differences one starts from two stimuli which seem to be equal, increasing one stimulus until a difference is ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law: Or, The by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1875)
"The expression ' permanent ' when applied to a sensible '• ~" object in the sense already employed imports that the object so described is perceptible ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"This will give two values for the least perceptible variation, ... To find the least perceptible accelerated variation the intensity is varied, ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"percipient " should not be a " perceptible," none why I should not be ... I think we are all perfectly "perceptible"—indeed, some of us are more ..."

6. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"The snow which one is accustomed to has a tint to it— painters usually give it a bluish cast—but there is no perceptible tint to the distant Alpine snow ..."

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