perceptibility

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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 Swedenborg, Emanuel

A proof of the great reduction in atmospheric glare was afforded by the perceptibility of the corona four minutes after totality was over.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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 Johnston, Charles

As to the argument drawn from dreams and hallucinations which might be brought against this, I have shown how it is set aside by a distinction between perceptibility and truth.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

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