Meaning | impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses. |
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Example | "color is unperceivable to the touch" |
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Synonym | imperceptible |
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Narrower | impalpable | not perceptible to the touch |
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incognizable, incognoscible | incapable of being perceived or known |
indiscernible, insensible, undetectable | Barely able to be perceived |
subliminal | Below the threshold of conscious perception |
unobservable | not accessible to direct observation |
See also | impalpable | imperceptible to the senses or the mind |
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inaudible, unhearable | impossible to hear |
invisible, unseeable | impossible or nearly impossible to see |
Opposite | perceptible | capable of being perceived by the mind or senses |
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Spanish | imperceptible, inadvertible |
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Catalan | imperceptible, insensible |
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