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

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 Croce, Benedetto

After some time, however, Aleck began snuffing the air, and, with evident concern, announced the approach of a mist, which soon thickened into perceptibility to me also.

From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 by Willis, Herbert

But the distinctness of objects, i. e., the perceptibility of a light-impression, depends also upon the absolute brightness and the differences in brightness.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

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)