Meanings
comparative more indistinguishable · superlative most indistinguishable
- Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (revised)1 more example
The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of the former Clifton South Junction.
1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330 - Not capable of being perceived or known.
plural indistinguishables
- Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
Synonyms & antonyms
antonym(s) of
antonym(s) of “not capable of being perceived”
adjectivenot capable of being distinguished or differentiated
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishdistinguish
- Englishdistinguishable
- Englishindistinguishable
From in- + distinguishable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian неразличим
- неразличим (nerazličim)not distinguishable
Catalan indistingible
- indistingiblenot distinguishable
Czech nerozlišitelný
- nerozlišitelnýnot distinguishable
Dutch ononderscheidbaar, niet te onderscheiden
- ononderscheidbaarnot distinguishable
- niet te onderscheidennot distinguishable
Finnish mahdoton erottaa
- mahdoton erottaanot distinguishable
French indistinguable, indistinguible
- indistinguablenot distinguishable
- indistinguiblenot distinguishable
Greek πανομοιότυπος, ολόιδιος
- πανομοιότυπος (panomoiótypos)not distinguishable
- ολόιδιος (olóidios)not distinguishable
- φτυστός (ftystós)not distinguishable
Hungarian megkülönböztethetetlen
- megkülönböztethetetlennot distinguishable
Polish nieodróżnialny
- nieodróżnialnynot distinguishable
Portuguese indistinguível
- indistinguívelnot distinguishable
Romanian indistingibil, nedistingibil
- indistingibilnot distinguishable
- nedistingibilnot distinguishable
Russian неразличи́мый
- неразличи́мый (nerazličímyj)not distinguishable
Spanish indistinguible
- indistinguiblenot distinguishable
Cite this entry
indistinguishable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indistinguishable
“indistinguishable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indistinguishable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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