seeable


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Adj.1.seeable - capable of being seen; or open to easy view; "a visible object"; "visible stars"; "mountains visible in the distance"; "a visible change of expression"; "visible files"
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perceptible - capable of being perceived by the mind or senses; "a perceptible limp"; "easily perceptible sounds"; "perceptible changes in behavior"
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seeable

adjective
Capable of being seen:
discernible, perceivable, perceptible, viewable, visible, visual.
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"Yes, Miss, but I don't believe he's seeable just yet."
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What Leslie Hill and Helen Paris call the "architectural Puritanism" (6) of the modern stage leads to a displacement of the senses; (7) sight and sound become primary; atmosphere, that almost paradoxical "quasi objective" (8) experience between subject and object that is breathable but not seeable, is sucked out of the space.
Genealogy and Overwriting
However, they cannot be produced economically on a large scale in a fore seeable time, if at all.
Who with Whom in Biofuel Policy? Coalitions in the Media Discourse on Liquid Biofuels in Germany
scientifically seeable as operating--and pathways for optimal
Aziboist Concepts and Psycho-Cultural-Political Orientations for the African-Centered: Part of a Non-Eurocentric World Psychology (Part 1)
He wrote: "I didn't pan over because there wasn't anything (seeable to me) over there.
Two-year-old saw something "spooky" and now people think she can see ghosts just like Sixth Sense; Ryan Dalton was filming his young daughter Maya eating breakfast when she suddenly became frightened after spotting something in the family kitchen
A poem came to be formed by what was discernible, perceptible, seeable, beheld.
Legible Horizon: Christian Wiman's Hammer Is the Prayer
He refers to prakriti throughout his text as the seen, or the seeable. When read through a nondual lens, the dualistic metaphysics of purusa and prakriti are seen as distinguishable, separable but not separate.
Jung in dialogue with Freud and Patanjali: Instinct, affective neuroscience, and the reconciliation of science and religious experience
Hochberg attempts to formulate what is seeable in the conflict and the different power relations and actors that determine the possibilities for that visuality.
Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
When the narrator (whose own temporal positioning is sufficiently unclear) demonstrates the outlandish cartographic details relating to the atlas, his heedlessness to spatio-temporal fixities and distinctiveness is eminently seeable. For we are informed that the atlas "reveals (in advance) the form of cities that do not yet have a form or a name" (126) as is evident through its possession of cities like Amsterdam, York and New Amsterdam (also known as New York) with all their characteristic features and forms at a time when they were absolutely traceless on Earth.
Postmodern temporality in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
We support Mitchell's approach, as well as his description of the relationship between words and images--namely what, with reference to Foucault, he calls the 'sayable' and the 'seeable'.
Visual 'Bildung' between Iconoclasm and Idolatry
Walter explains that modernists experimented with optical impersonality through "imagetextuality"--that is, the blurring of the line between the seeable and the sayable--a term that Walter borrows from W.
Optical Impersonality: Science, Images, and Literary Modernism

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