perceptibility

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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 Ruskin, John

Visibility -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness, distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity†, conspicuousness; appearance &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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

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 Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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