discriminable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- discriminability noun
- discriminably adverb
Etymology
Origin of discriminable
First recorded in 1720–30; discrimin(ate) + -able
Example Sentences
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And Wordsworth insisted, quite as strongly as his severest critics, upon finish, upon literary art as discriminable from the substance.
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Only one, that characterized by secondary accentuation, has no such discriminable quality of phases.
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If the conditions at the entrances of the two boxes were discriminable, the mouse usually learned within one hundred experiences to choose the right box without much hesitation.
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