different between indistinguishability vs indiscernibility

English

Noun

indistinguishability (countable and uncountable, plural indistinguishabilities)

1. The state of being indistinguishable
   • 1991 Earl H. Tilford Jnr. - Setup: what the Air Force did in Vietnam and why

     At times Air Force and CAS efforts blended to the point of indistinguishability.

   • 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.

Antonyms

• distinguishability

Derived terms

• indistinguishable

Translations

English

Etymology

in- +? discernibility

Noun

indiscernibility (countable and uncountable, plural indiscernibilities)

1. The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.
   • 1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, ?ISBN, 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.

Derived terms

• indiscernibility of identicals