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PERCEPTIBLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily seen or detected
Example:
he continued after a perceptible pause
Synonyms:
detectable; perceptible
Classified under:
Similar:
noticeable (capable or worthy of being noticed)
Derivation:
perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
perceptibility (the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of being perceived by the mind or senses
Example:
a perceptible sense of expectation in the court
Classified under:
Similar:
detectable; noticeable (capable of being detected)
discernible (capable of being perceived clearly)
faint; weak (deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc)
palpable ((medicine) can be felt by palpation)
perceivable (capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing)
recognizable (easily perceived; easy to become aware of)
sensible (readily perceived by the senses)
Also:
audible; hearable (heard or perceptible by the ear)
seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
Antonym:
imperceptible (impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses)
Derivation:
perceive (become conscious of)
perceptibility (the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses)
Context examples:
I can remember no symptom of affection on either side; and had anything of the kind been perceptible, you must be aware that ours is not a family on which it could be thrown away.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was true, there was a perceptible halt midway in her assertion, which she glossed over with more tears and kisses and incoherent stammerings, and which Martin inferred to be her appeal for forgiveness for the time she had lacked faith in him and insisted on his getting a job.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Traddles, with a perceptible lengthening of his face, explained that he had not been able to approach this subject; that it had shared the fate of Mr. Micawber's liabilities, in not being comprehended in the terms he had made; that we were no longer of any authority with Uriah Heep; and that if he could do us, or any of us, any injury or annoyance, no doubt he would.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His affections seemed to reanimate towards them all, and his interest in their welfare again became perceptible.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The flavour is not disagreeable, but it is perceptible.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If he was absent from the room an hour, a perceptible dulness seemed to steal over the spirits of his guests; and his re-entrance was sure to give a fresh impulse to the vivacity of conversation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Colonel Brandon's partiality for Marianne, which had so early been discovered by his friends, now first became perceptible to Elinor, when it ceased to be noticed by them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
No charm was wanting, no defect was perceptible; the young girl had regular and delicate lineaments; eyes shaped and coloured as we see them in lovely pictures, large, and dark, and full; the long and shadowy eyelash which encircles a fine eye with so soft a fascination; the pencilled brow which gives such clearness; the white smooth forehead, which adds such repose to the livelier beauties of tint and ray; the cheek oval, fresh, and smooth; the lips, fresh too, ruddy, healthy, sweetly formed; the even and gleaming teeth without flaw; the small dimpled chin; the ornament of rich, plenteous tresses—all advantages, in short, which, combined, realise the ideal of beauty, were fully hers.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
