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indiscernibility en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English discernibility English indiscernibility From in- + discernibility.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, qualifier:often philosophical, uncountable) 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:

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Deriveds

indiscernibility of identicals