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perceptible
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The Birthmark
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- A heightened flush of the cheek, a slight irregularity of breath, a quiver of the eyelid, a hardly perceptible tremor through the frame,—such were the details which, as the moments passed, he wrote down in his folio volume.†
perceptible = capable of being noticed
- A faint smile flitted over her lips when she recognized how barely perceptible was now that crimson hand which had once blazed forth with such disastrous brilliancy as to scare away all their happiness.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)