Indiscernibility

Full definition of indiscernibility

Noun

1. The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
• 1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, ISBN 9780198262138, p. 240: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. (often philosophical) Inability to be perceived as distinct from something else; indistinguishability .
• 2005, Edward Mussawir, "The Cinematics of Jurisprudence: Scenes of Law's Moving Image," Law and Literature, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 133: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.

Derived terms

• indiscernibility of identicals