Perceptible vs Ostensible - What's the difference?
perceptible | ostensible | Related terms |
Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
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Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
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Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).
Perceptible is a related term of ostensible.
As adjectives the difference between perceptible and ostensible
is that perceptible is able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned while ostensible is apparent, evident; meant for open display.As a noun perceptible
is anything that can be perceived.perceptible
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(en adjective)ostensible
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(en adjective)- Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
- In witch-trials the conflict was officially defined as between the accused and God, or between the accused and the Catholic (later Protestant) church, as God's earthly representative. [...]
Behind the ostensible conflict of the witch-trial lay the usual conflicts of social class, values, and human relationships.
- The ostensible reason for his visit to New York was to see his mother, but the real reason was to get to the Yankees game the next day.
