undistinguishable

adj — 2 senses

undistinguishable

adj

UK /ˌʌndɪˈstɪŋɡwɪʃəb(ə)l/

Etymology From un- + distinguishable.

1

Imperceptible; indistinct.

2

Indistinguishable.

  • Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 297:
Derived terms
undistinguishableness, undistinguishably

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.