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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Examples
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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
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For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity.
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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
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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
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For in solitude the blur of safe indistinction becomes sharp and dangerous identity.
Art and Literature 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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