perceptibility
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But a bigness which depends upon perceptibility, not measurement, derives from a concept widely different from the mathematical.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
Visibility -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness, distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity†, conspicuousness; appearance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on the form of the body, by arresting the body's perceptibility, and by inhibiting the eye's power of sight, there comes the power to make the body invisible.
From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Charles Johnston
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
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
