Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imperceptible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Imperceptible.
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- adjective That cannot be
perceived ;imperceptible .
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Examples
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There's an old management trick: huff about unknown and imperceivable "errors" and "mistakes" and just not "getting it" to keep product to be repurposed elsewhere flowing.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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And she knew that to him they were alone together in a world where the high-rouged row of ballet faces and the massed whines of the violins were as imperceivable as powder on a marble Venus.
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The writer in relation to the nature of perceivable reality and what is beyond - imperceivable reality
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He stared at the doctor, and she saw the almost imperceivable movement of a muscle in his jaw.
Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994
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He stared at the doctor, and she saw the almost imperceivable movement of a muscle in his jaw.
Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994
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The writer in relation to the nature of perceivable reality and what is beyond -- imperceivable reality -- is the basis for all these studies, no matter what resulting concepts are labelled, and no matter in what categorized microfiles writers are stowed away for the annals of literary historiography.
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It is said to be imperceivable, inconceivable and unchangeable.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And she knew that to him they were alone together in a world where the high-rouged row of ballet faces and the massed whines of the violins were as imperceivable as powder on a marble Venus.
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Having proved that the inequality, which may subsist between man and man in a state of nature, is almost imperceivable, and that it has very little influence, I must now proceed to show its origin, and trace its progress, in the successive developments of the human mind.
First Part 1909
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I say, imperceivable for the present, and considered each of them singly and by themselves; but sufficiently perceivable, after that some considerable space of time, and a frequent iteration of them, has wrought such a change in the soul, as to a spiritual discernment will quickly shew and discover itself.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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