All 3 Uses of
imperceptible
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- An imperceptible smile played round her perfect lips as she turned to him calmly.†
Chpt 10 *
- …the myriad minute entomological organic existences concealed in cavities of the earth, beneath removable stones, in hives and mounds, of microbes, germs, bacteria, bacilli, spermatozoa: of the incalculable trillions of billions of millions of imperceptible molecules contained by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity,…†
Chpt 17
- Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(imperceptible) impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses