discernible

• discernable

From Middle French discernable; spelling changed from -a- to -i- in the 17th century to conform to Latin discernibilis. By surface analysis, discern +‎ -ible.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɝnɪbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɜːnɪbl̩/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: dis‧cern‧ible

discernible (comparative more discernible, superlative most discernible)

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.

   • 1821, John Duncan, Duncan's Travels:

     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.

   • 1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.

• See discoverable

• discernibility
• discernibleness
• discernibly
• indiscernible

• discernment

• rescindible

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /disθeɾˈnible/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /diseɾˈnible/
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: dis‧cer‧ni‧ble

discernible m or f (masculine and feminine plural discernibles)

1. discernible

• “discernible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10