Adjective : the imperceptible slope of the road. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : metaphysical speculation about imperceptibles. From Dictionary.com.
A faint, tantalizing odor right at the edge of imperceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
It's a Huckabee joke that's been processed into near imperceptibility. From Wordnik.com. ["Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"] Reference
Only Beynor remained solidly upright, the terrible radiance of his magical tool now paled almost to imperceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
According to him it means, -- 'in consequence of his subtlety and imperceptibility, Jiva does not become attached to anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
The dynamic stillness between particle and wave is where we confront the wavicle: an awareness of the imperceptibility of the power of the symbol delivering a new aesthetic to the avant-garde. From Wordnik.com. [Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Modernist (R)evolution in Performance: Ralph Lemon's Middle Passage] Reference
In the advanced stages of cicatrisation narrowing of the lumen of the trunk vessels was far from uncommon, especially in cases of wounds of the arm crossing the course of the brachial artery; in many of these the radial pulse was diminished almost to imperceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [On Sense and the Sensible] Reference
But you, "he continued, moving imperceptibility a little nearer to her," you are mine. From Wordnik.com. [Anna the Adventuress] Reference
Faint almost to imperceptibility, but appalling, she suddenly heard the grinding of his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
It cannot be the imperceptibility of the too small, nor the unapprehensibility of the too large. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
This time the sacred figure, not cloaked with mysterious imperceptibility, was sharp on the plate. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
The doubt here arises whether the Indestructible, possessing the qualities of imperceptibility, &c., and that which is higher than the. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
Sweepingly, postmeridian can recently pomatomus by an premedical foolhardy of the imperceptibility of ablaut bedrock and uncooked mellon. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The elder Miss Boggs started toward her with stern decision, but the little Daguerrotype turned with a shadowy smile, became a blur and an imperceptibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Fear] Reference
At intervals, with her ringed fingers she would lift the short skirt -- a nothing, an imperceptibility, half an inch, with glance downcast; and the effect was profound, recondite, inexplicable. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
But unless I were to abort the imperceptibility spells, which I doubt very much would be wise since I have no duplicates - ". From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
TIME and space were completely beguiled of their tediousness by those expedients for which seafarers in general are proverbial — twisting a yarn; certes, a speedy and pleasant voyage, together with the excellent keeping preserved in the ward-room, had produced considerable imperceptibility; so that one fine night, or rather morning, while the moon was gazing at her face in the water, the sails reflected on the deep, and the repose of the night was disturbed only by the roar of the ocean, to their great surprise they made the land. From Wordnik.com. [Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund] Reference
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