All 3 Uses of
perceptible
in
The Great Gatsby
- Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
p. 25.9perceptible = noticeable
- "I never loved him," she said, with perceptible reluctance.
p. 132.3
- There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. with little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.
p. 162.1 *perceptible = capable of being seen
Definition:
capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough