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Visibility -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness, distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity†, conspicuousness; appearance &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

As to the argument drawn from dreams and hallucinations which might be brought against this, I have shown how it is set aside by a distinction between perceptibility and truth.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

But although we may take the peculiar organization of their olfactory organs as being partly the cause of this keen perceptibility, we must in a great measure attribute this perfection to their mode of living.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

In other instances the assurance given by the sign consists in its perceptibility and corporeality; so that the word assumes, as it were, flesh and blood.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

But a bigness which depends upon perceptibility, not measurement, derives from a concept widely different from the mathematical.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto