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discriminately en · ADV

Etymology

From discriminate + -ly.

Meanings

1. Distinctly; In a manner that perceives or exhibits differences.
   • In a recent study, babies under 15 months were all found to respond discriminately to the name of one person (e.g., Mommy) and one-half responded discriminately to the name of an object (e.g., blanket) without contextual cues or gestures (Miller, Chapman, Branston, & Reichle, 1980). 2013, Eric Schopler, Gary B. Mesibov, Communication Problems in Autism, page 260:
   • .A similar point holds for o₂—which, though indiscriminable from o₁, is discriminately less blue than o_(new). 2010, Richard Dietz, Sebastiano Moruzzi, Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature, & its Logic, page 58:
   • Apparently, young children do not need higher-order concepts, or theory, to understand intentional states discriminately. 1988, Janet W. Astington, Paul L. Harris, David R. Olson, Developing Theories of Mind, page 49:
   • The hypothesis is that in the end, the interplay of activation and decay will cause just a few areas to be discriminately more activated than others, thus identifying the predominant knowledge items, which can then be interpreted as the main concepts – the topics – present in the text. 2011, Andreas Koenig, Andreas Dengel, Knut Hinkelmann, Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, page 4:
2. In a discriminating manner; showing discerning taste or judgement.
   • Behind the tall-backed and elaborately wrought chairs, stand the servants, men and maidens—fifteen in number—discriminately selected, not only with a view to their industry and faithfulness, but with special regard to their personal appearance, their graceful agility and captivating address. 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter VII, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
   • The IRA and the CSA, aiming at developing industries of the new energy and semiconductor respectively, attempt to establish relevant industries in the U.S. or its trusted partner through huge amounts of subsidies. The Acts mentioned above also discriminately restrict or exclude other members from participating in global new energy and semiconductor supply chains and forcibly alter the global industrial pattern and market division of labor. 2023, 2023 Report on WTO Compliance of the United States:
   • And the next car that passes we look at more closely and discriminately. We know something about automobiles and we could have one, too, if we were contented with a two-cylinder car like that. Or, as the impatience becomes greater, "That's four cylinders; but didn't that two-cylinder go almost as well?" and we can have the two-cylinder car right now. 1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising:

Forms

Deriveds

indiscriminately · nondiscriminately