indissociable
- adjective
- /ˌɪndɪˈsoʊʃəbl/
- Formal
- Furthermore, the notion of dirty hands is not applicable to a situation in which the rebarbative aspects and the ostensibly benign aspects of some policy are constitutively indissociable.
Examples
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Early Greeks recognized that forgetting and remembering were an indissociable pair intrinsic to the memory process.
Academic text (1996) -
I also wish to assert that human dignity is a larger idea than human stature and contains another component that is indissociable from morality.
Academic text (1999) -
In other words, the optic phenomenon is indissociable from the hermeneutic process.
Academic text (2006) -
The pluralism indissociable from a democratic society, which has been dearly won over the centuries, depends on it.
Academic text (1997) -
Far from a mere optical illusion, the rocky zoomorphic figure is indissociable from the visual exegesis in which it plays a dynamic role.
Academic text (2006) -
For example, stained glass in the application of an image indissociable from its support, to which the light necessary for its vision is not reflective but penetrating.
Academic text (2004) -
And they are the characteristics of Modotti's photography: such is the field of vision, her photographs seem to suggest, of the master's model, used to lying prone on the ground, indissociable from her body and the surfaces with which it comes in contact.
Academic text (2002) -
The pleasure attendant on a will-to-mastery becomes indissociable from the Freudian scandal of a masochistically pleasurable unpleasure.
Academic text (1995) -
The Wolf Man's desire assumes "pathological" proportions because it identifies him with the mother, even after he understands her pleasure as indissociable from the violence of submissive "castration." 12
Academic text (1995) -
The concept of freedom is indissociable from the idea of responsibility in a just society.
Synonyms
Cannot be divided and kept apart, like joined parts or very close friends
Cannot be split into parts
Impossible to separate because things are very tightly joined
Cannot be removed from a word and always stays attached
Not able to be separated from the thing it is attached to
Things not separated into clear parts that form one solid mass
Does not divide into simpler parts
Impossible to see as separate parts, for example in a photo
Antonyms
How Inseparable
Surface Forms
Morphology
indissociable = dissociable (semi-transparent) = in + dis + soci + ate + able
The negative prefix 'in-' attaches straightforwardly to 'dissociable' to mean 'not capable of being separated'.
Etymology
The word indissociable comes from in- meaning 'not' and the same root as associate, which means 'to join' or 'connect'. So, something indissociable cannot be separated or thought of apart from something else.