indiscernibility

plural indiscernibilities

1. countableuncountableThe state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed.

   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.

   1999, Jeremy Waldron, The Law and Disagreement, →ISBN, page 240

2. countableuncountableoften philosophicalInability to be perceived as distinct from something else; indistinguishability.

   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.

   2005, Edward Mussawir, “The Cinematics of Jurisprudence: Scenes of Law's Moving Image”, in Law and Literature, volume 17, number 1, page 133