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 John Ruskin
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 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
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
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
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 Alfred Binet
