• Indiscernibility

    Full definition of indiscernibility

    Noun

    indiscernibility

    (plural indiscernibilities)
    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.
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