Pure vs Perceptible - What's the difference?
pure | perceptible | Related terms |
Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
* (1800-1859)
(senseid)Free of foreign material or pollutants.
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
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(label) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
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(label) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
(Liverpool) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
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Pure is a related term of perceptible.
As nouns the difference between pure and perceptible
is that pure is puree, while perceptible is anything that can be perceived.As an adjective perceptible is
able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.pure
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- Keep thyself pure .
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Synonyms
* perfect * innocent * See alsoAntonyms
* impure, contaminated * (done for its own sake) appliedDerived terms
* pure finder * as pure as the driven snowAdverb
(en adverb)- You’re pure busy.
