indiscernibility

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state of being impossible to perceive, distinguish, or tell apart

   At that resolution, the two points approach indiscernibility.

2. 2
   noun

   in philosophy, the absence of any discernible property by which two entities differ

   The principle links complete indiscernibility with numerical identity.

From indiscernible + -ity. Indiscernible combines in- ("not") with discernible, from Latin discernere ("to separate, distinguish"), built from dis- ("apart") + cernere ("to sift, distinguish").

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