indistinguishable
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- adjective
- /ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃəbl/
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indistinguible
- It's the psychological equivalent of Arthur Clarke's observation that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- virtually indistinguishable
- statistically indistinguishable
- nearly indistinguishable
However, it's indistinguishable from being truly random now.
- However, it's indistinguishable from being truly random now.
- Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.
- To me, what they're doing is indistinguishable from gambling.
- And there are some perfect renditions that are literally almost indistinguishable from the original hardware.
- If he does give it up, if he adopts the greater freedom of movement, virtue becomes indistinguishable then from the way of the world.
- If we could create AI, whether in a robot or whether in a simulation that was indistinguishable from a human.
- And at some point, that consciousness will mature to be indistinguishable from how we think of our own lived experience.
- And in fact, in the Middle Ages, the cuisine in Italy was virtually indistinguishable from the cuisine in England, believe it or not.
Examples
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A black hole of a certain mass, charge and spin is indistinguishable from any other black hole with those same properties.
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If the masses were the same, all three of these are virtually indistinguishable except for a small difference in their mass.
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Eventually they may be indistinguishable from the physical world.
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Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.
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And they say we look all alike; these guys were almost indistinguishable from one another.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the colonial state, administration was almost indistinguishable from the government; it was in fact the government.
Academic text (1993) -
On the other hand, the industry has become so incredibly good at designing fake leather that's indistinguishable from the real product.
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One of my favorite sayings from another role model, Arthur C Clarke, is that magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.
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In their baseball hats and surf T-shirts, they are indistinguishable from the tourists in the coffee house.
Fiction book (1999) -
The new smartphone's features are indistinguishable from those of its more expensive competitor.
Synonyms
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Being exactly the same in every detail as another
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Hard to see, hear, or notice
Cannot be told apart from something else
Antonyms
How Distinguishable
Surface Forms
Morphology
indistinguishable = distinguishable (transparent) = in + distinguish + able
The prefix 'in-' straightforwardly negates 'distinguishable', yielding the meaning 'not able to be told apart'.
Etymology
Indistinguishable breaks down into in- meaning 'not' and distinguish meaning 'to tell apart'. That's why something indistinguishable cannot be 'told apart' from another thing.