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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indiscernible
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The crack in the windshield was almost indiscernible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her nod was indiscernible, with no appeal as to what and whom Ezra wanted to talk about.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indiscernible

Indiscernible \In`dis*cern"i*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + discernible: cf. F. indiscernable.] Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.

Secret and indiscernible ways.
--Jer. Taylor. -- In`dis*cern"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`dis*cern"i*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indiscernible

1630s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + discernible. Related: Indiscernibly; indiscernibility.

Wiktionary
indiscernible

a. 1 Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived. 2 Not capable of being distinguished from something else. n. (context chiefly philosophy English) Something which is incapable of being discerned.

WordNet
indiscernible
  1. adj. difficult or impossible to perceive or discern; "an indiscernible increase in temperature" [ant: discernible]

  2. barely able to be perceived; "the transition was almost indiscernible"; "an almost insensible change" [syn: insensible, undetectable]

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Usage examples of "indiscernible".

I see a man with hair white as snow, beplumed as a bird, his eyes almost indiscernible, covered as they are by snowy, drooping lashes.

She looked in on Louie, but decided not to take him from his gadgeteering, and made for the ready-room, where she found Angelo nursing a drink in the dark, silently regarding the distant fortress, a black shape all but indiscernible from the ridgeline's numerous stone outcroppings and buttresses.

But Mappings covering such a short distance were brief and isomorphic: she felt the same coming out of the destination station as entering it (just as, of course, principles of the identity of indiscernible objects predicted she should).