perceptibility
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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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Now, according to the number of rays reflected is the force of the image of objects above, and according to the number of rays transmitted is the perceptibility of objects below the water.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
It assumes various characters according to its rapidity of beat, frequency of occurrence, resistance to pressure, regularity, and perceptibility.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
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 Hugo Münsterberg
