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English
Etymology
From in- + discernibility.
Noun
indiscernibility (countable and uncountable, plural indiscernibilities)
- The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, →ISBN, page 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.
- (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”, in Law and Literature, volume 17, number 1, page 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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