Indiscernibility
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. countable, uncountable
"If I drive without such a device, I am doing something wrong despite the indiscernability of the harm occasioned by the emissions from my car in particular."
- 2 The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. wordnet
- 3 Inability to be perceived as distinct from something else; indistinguishability . countable, uncountable
"Yet, from another perspective entirely, in both genres of analysis—those in which film is taken as medium of law and those in which law is taken as a medium of film—one necessarily acknowledges and approaches a zone of indiscernibility between the two."
Example
More examples"If I drive without such a device, I am doing something wrong despite the indiscernability of the harm occasioned by the emissions from my car in particular."
Etymology
From in- + discernibility.
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