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Definition of Imperceptible
1. Adjective. Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses. "Color is unperceivable to the touch"
Also: Inaudible, Unhearable, Impalpable, Invisible, Unseeable
Similar to: Impalpable, Incognizable, Incognoscible, Indiscernible, Insensible, Undetectable, Subliminal, Unobservable
Derivative terms: Imperceptibility
Antonyms: Perceptible
Definition of Imperceptible
1. a. Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the senses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.
Definition of Imperceptible
1. Adjective. Not perceptible, not detectable, too small in magnitude to be observed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imperceptible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperceptible
Literary usage of Imperceptible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The discussion as to whether there are sensations which are imperceptible is not
raised here. Cf. UNCONSCIOUS. (JMB, GFS) Impersonal Judgment : see ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Even the imperceptible sect of the Koga- tians could affirm, without a blush,
that when Christ should descend to ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The very fact of the great changes in result, caused bv imperceptible accretion,
... The fact, as thus stated, is that the land was formed by imperceptible ..."
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