Perceptible definition

pər-sĕptə-bəl
That can be perceived.
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Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind.

Perceptible sounds in the night.

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The definition of perceptible is able to be seen or felt.

An example of something perceptible is a bright sunrise on a summer morning.

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Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.

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Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind.

Perceptible sounds in the night.

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Origin of perceptible

  • Late Latin perceptibilis from Latin perceptus past participle of percipere to perceive perceive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Perceptible Sentence Examples

  • It has a perceptible influence on the Hindu character.

  • His brows came down into a barely perceptible frown.

  • Only in the very last year of his life was there perceptible a positive deterioration.

  • Still farther to the north-west a distinct Minoan influence is perceptible in the old Illyrian lands east of the Adriatic, and its traces reappear in the neighbourhood of Venice.

  • To those on board the ship the movement of those waves will be the only perceptible motion.

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