perceptible

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛptəbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛptɪbl̩/

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perceptible (comparative more perceptible, superlative most perceptible)

1. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.

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

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.

perceptible (plural perceptibles)

1. Anything that can be perceived.

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō), equivalent to percebre +‎ -ible.

perceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural perceptibles)

1. perceptible

   Antonym: imperceptible

• perceptiblement

• “perceptible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “perceptible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “perceptible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “perceptible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō).

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perceptible (plural perceptibles)

1. perceptible

   Synonym: percevable

   Antonym: imperceptible

   • 1876, M. Bouilly, Archives Générales de Médecine‎, page 464:

     A ce niveau, cibrations thoraciques faibles, mais perceptibles ; voix un peu éloignée, mais sans aucun timbre ægophonique.

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• percevoir

• “perceptible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /peɾθebˈtible/ [peɾ.θeβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /peɾsebˈtible/ [peɾ.seβ̞ˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: per‧cep‧ti‧ble

perceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural perceptibles)

1. perceptible

• “perceptible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014