discriminable

[dih-skrim-uh-nuh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being discriminated or distinguished.

Other Word Forms

• discriminability noun
• discriminably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of discriminable¹

First recorded in 1720–30; discrimin(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

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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