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Percept [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That which is perceived.

Perceptibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state or quality of being perceptible; as the perceptibility of light or color.

2. Perception. [Less proper.]

Perceptibility [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.

2. Perception.

Perceptible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be perceived; that may impress the bodily organs; that may come under the cognizance of the senses; as a perceptible degree of heat or cold; a perceptible odor; a perceptible sound. A thing may be too minute to be perceptible to the touch.

2. That may be known or conceived of.

Perceptible [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.

Perceptibly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a manner to be perceived.

2. The woman decays perceptibly every week.

Perception [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of perceiving or of receiving impressions by the senses; or that act or process of the mind which makes known an external object. In other words, the notice which the mind takes of external objects. We gain a knowledge of the coldness and smoothness of marble by perception

2. In philosophy, the faculty of perceiving; the faculty or peculiar part of man's constitution, by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs.

3. Notion; idea.

4. The state of being affected or capable of being affected by something external.

5. This experiment discovers perception in plants.

Perception [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.

2. The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception.

3. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility.

4. An idea; a notion.

Perceptive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having the faculty of perceiving.

Perceptive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

Perceptivity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The power of perception of thinking.

Perceptivity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.