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indiscernibility

indiscernibility noun: the state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.

Noun

indiscernibility (countable and uncountable, plural indiscernibilities)

  1. The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
    • 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.1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, →ISBN, page 240
  2. (often philosophical) Inability to be perceived as distinct from something else; indistinguishability .
    • 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.2005, Edward Mussawir, “The Cinematics of Jurisprudence: Scenes of Law's Moving Image”, in Law and Literature, volume 17, number 1, page 133

Forms of indiscernibility

pluralindiscernibilities

Origin of indiscernibility

From in- + discernibility.

Words formed from indiscernibility

Questions about indiscernibility

What does indiscernibility mean?
Indiscernibility means the state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
What part of speech is indiscernibility?
Indiscernibility is a noun.
What is the plural of indiscernibility?
The plural of indiscernibility is indiscernibilities.

Words near indiscernibility in the dictionary

  1. indirubin
  2. indirubinoid
  3. indirubinoids
  4. indirubins
  5. indiscernibilities
  6. indiscernibility
  7. indiscernibility of identicals
  8. indiscernible
  9. indiscernibleness
  10. indiscernibles
  11. indiscernibly

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