Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of distinction in kind or character; confusion; indiscrimination.
  • noun Absence of distinction in condition or rank; equality; sameness.
  • noun Indistinctness; obscurity; dimness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The fact of not distinguishing or making distinctions; failure to perceive or make a difference.
  • noun The condition or fact of not being distinct or different; absence of distinguishing qualities or characteristics; undistinguishableness.
  • noun obsolete Indistinctness, obscurity, dimness.
  • noun Absence of distinction or eminence; obscurity.

Etymologies

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First attested in 1624; formed as in- +‎ distinction, after indistinct.

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Examples

  • It builds on the primal unity of all things and observes unity's endless reverberations as it emerges from indistinction.

    William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Innate Beauty Of Human Nature Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2011

  • For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from

    Varenna 2010

  • What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from

    Varenna 2010

  • For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity.

    Art and Literature 2009

  • It builds on the primal unity of all things and observes unity's endless reverberations as it emerges from indistinction.

    William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Innate Beauty Of Human Nature Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2011

  • What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from

    Varenna 2010

  • From a critical view I recognise the utility in Clute's closed definition, the problems of indistinction and overload that emerge when we throw the term fantasy about with little specificity.

    A Follow Up Hal Duncan 2008

  • From a critical view I recognise the utility in Clute's closed definition, the problems of indistinction and overload that emerge when we throw the term fantasy about with little specificity.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

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