imperceptibility.

The quality of being too slight or otherwise inaccessible to perception under the relevant conditions.

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Words that belong together

• imperceptibility of a change
• visual imperceptibility

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The change’s imperceptibility at first made its later accumulation unsettling.

Visual imperceptibility depended on distance and lighting rather than the absence of a physical mark.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, interpretation, contrast, characterization. Disciplines: prose writing, literary analysis, advanced general English. Commonness: uncommon.