Both Uses of
perceptible
in
Howards End
- Miss Wilcox had changed perceptibly since her engagement.†
Part 17 *perceptibly = in a manner that is capable of being noticed
- He, as a handsome young man, was faintly attractive to her as a woman—an attraction so faint as scarcely to be perceptible, yet the skies would have fallen if she had mentioned it to Henry.†
Part 29perceptible = capable of being noticed
Definition:
capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough