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indistinguishability en · NOUN

Etymology

From in- + distinguishability or indistinguishable + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being indistinguishable.
   • 1996 Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction But due to the indistinguishability of the particles in the sample, it describes a decay mechanism that occurs for all N atoms simultaneously.
   • At times Air Force and CAS efforts blended to the point of indistinguishability. 1991, Earl H. Tilford Jnr, Setup: what the Air Force did in Vietnam and why:
   • Supposing, for example, that in carrjing our eye along a log of wood, and a piece of stone^ we find the troublof moving the eye (which, though small, is perceptible) to be neither greater nor less in the one case than in the other, these two efforts will e then be indistinguishable to us ; and if we find many cases of such indistinguishability, we shall want a word to express the idea ; we shall call it equality. 1872, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 99-100:

Forms

Antonyms

distinguishability

Relateds

indistinguishable

Synonyms

indistinguishableness

Translations (5)

it indistinguibilità (the state of being indistinguishable) · ca indistingibilitat (the state of being indistinguishable) · ro indistingibilitate (the state of being indistinguishable) · fr indistinguabilité (the state of being indistinguishable) · hu megkülönböztethetetlenség (the state of being indistinguishable)