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discriminable

discriminable

8.5
Clearly different so you can tell it apart from similar things
  • adjective
  • /dɪsˈkrɪmɪnəbl/
translation icon : discriminable
  • The colors in the painting are easily discriminable from one another, making the artwork vibrant.

Examples

  • High-quality images provide discriminable features that help in identifying the species of birds.

  • It obviously can apply to any film that has discriminable parts.

    Academic text (1998)

  • This represents the use of discriminable scoring categories in an acceptable metric.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Justice and Kaderavek (2002) also suggested that stories should have features that are salient (e.g., large font that is easily discriminable for children).

    Academic text (2013)

  • Overall, the sexuality measures manifested somewhat different patterns of associations across the WSWMS factors, indicating that the five factors represent discriminable aspects of women's sexual working models.

    Academic text (2006)

  • This process may make the memory traces of unknown items more distinct (i.e., discriminable from the myriad other traces in LTM) and increase the likelihood that they will be successfully retrieved during testing.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Distractor items were clearly discriminable from the test items; there was no disembedding required, nor were the extraneous stimuli selected from the same cognitive category (here, alphanumeric stimuli) as the targets.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The new software allows users to see discriminable differences between similar product designs.

Synonyms

distinct
vsdiscriminable
168 3.5

Clearly different from others

is about being able to be told apart rather than already being separate
discernible
vsdiscriminable
29 5.5

Something that is easy to see or notice

is focused on being seen or felt rather than being judged different
distinguishable
vsdiscriminable
7 4.6

Easy to see or recognize as different from others

is the general ability to be recognized as different and not limited to groups
discernable
vsdiscriminable
1 5.1

Easy to notice or understand

is about being recognized as different rather than merely perceived
differentiable
vsdiscriminable
7.5

You can tell it apart from something similar

is about being recognized as different in general and not only against one thing

Antonyms

indistinguishable
28 7.0

Not able to tell two things apart because they look the same

How Distinguishable

distinctive
104 3.9
distinct
168 3.5
discriminable
8.5
similar
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

discriminable positive

Morphology

discriminable = discriminate (semi-transparent) = discrimin + able

The meaning is largely predictable from 'discriminate' + '-able', but the reduced form 'discrimin-' makes the relationship slightly less obvious to learners.

Etymology

The word discriminable comes from the same root as discriminate and is related to discern, all based on the idea of putting things 'apart' so you can 'see or notice' differences. So, if something is discriminable, it is 'able to be told apart' or seen as different.