discernible

comparative more discernible · superlative most discernible · alternative discernable

1. Possible to discern; detectable or derivable by use of the senses or the intellect.

   There is a discernible performance difference between a Porsche and a Civic.

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   To have demolished and rebuilt the walls, would have been a very costly expedient, and as the least of two evils, the painter's brush was resorted to; here and there however, above some of the windows, the black wreathings of the smoke are still discernible through the white covering.

   1821, John Duncan, Duncan's Travels

   So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   In 1995, the IPCC declared that the human impact on climate was now “discernible.”

   2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, “Introduction”, in Merchants of Doubt

   This magnificent picture really stopped me in my tracks when I stumbled across it. I was drawn inexorably and immediately into the compelling detail discernible on this top-quality image.

   2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 36

   Synonyms: discoverable