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perceivable

adj

Etymology

From perceive + -able.

  1. derived from percipiō
  2. derived from percevoir
  3. inherited from perceyven
  4. suffixed as perceivable — “perceive + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being perceived

    Capable of being perceived; discernible.

    • Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable.
    • The only perceivable difference between the AP and FBI photos is that the man in the FBI photo is clean-shaven and shorter-haired.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perceivable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA