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Meaning of "indistinction" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INDISTINCTION

indistinction  [ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋkʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INDISTINCTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Indistinction is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INDISTINCTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of indistinction in the English dictionary

The first definition of indistinction in the dictionary is a lack of distinction made or perceived, the absence of making a distinction. Other definition of indistinction is a lack of difference or distinguishing features, the state of not being distinct or distinguishable. Indistinction is also a lack of eminence or distinction, the quality of being undistinguished.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INDISTINCTION


adjunction
əˈdʒʌŋkʃən
compunction
kəmˈpʌŋkʃən
conjunction
kənˈdʒʌŋkʃən
contradistinction
ˌkɒntrədɪˈstɪŋkʃən
disfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
disjunction
dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən
distinction
dɪˈstɪŋkʃən
dysfunction
dɪsˈfʌŋkʃən
eigenfunction
ˈaɪɡənˌfʌŋkʃən
expunction
ɪkˈspʌŋkʃən
extinction
ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən
function
ˈfʌŋkʃən
hyperfunction
ˌhaɪpəˈfʌŋkʃən
injunction
ɪnˈdʒʌŋkʃən
intinction
ɪnˈtɪŋkʃən
junction
ˈdʒʌŋkʃən
malfunction
mælˈfʌŋkʃən
multifunction
ˈmʌltɪˌfʌŋkʃən
sanction
ˈsæŋkʃən
unction
ˈʌŋkʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INDISTINCTION

indissociable
indissociably
indissolubility
indissoluble
indissolubleness
indissolubly
indissolvable
indissuadable
indissuadably
indistinct
indistinctive
indistinctively
indistinctiveness
indistinctly
indistinctness
indistinguishability
indistinguishable
indistinguishableness
indistinguishably
indistributable

WORDS THAT END LIKE INDISTINCTION

accreditation
action
attraction
auction
collection
connection
construction
correction
course of action
detection
direction
election
fiction
introduction
production
protection
reaction
satisfaction
section
selection
transaction

Synonyms and antonyms of indistinction in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «indistinction» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INDISTINCTION

Find out the translation of indistinction to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of indistinction from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «indistinction» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模糊性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

indistinción
570 millions of speakers

English

indistinction
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

indistinction
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

indistinction
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неразличимости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indistinção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

indistinction
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indistinction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak jelas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ununterscheidbarkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

indistinction
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

indistinction
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Indistinction
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

indistinction
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

indistinction
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

indistinction
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indistinzione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nierozróżnialności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нерозрізненості
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indistincție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακαθοριστίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

indistinction
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

indistinction
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

indistinction
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of indistinction

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INDISTINCTION»

The term «indistinction» is used very little and occupies the 153.515 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INDISTINCTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «indistinction» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «indistinction» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about indistinction

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INDISTINCTION»

Discover the use of indistinction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to indistinction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Neoplatonism and Christian Thought
The third proof is new and it is a dialectical one: Everything which is distinguished by indistinction is the more distinct insofar as it is indistinct, because it is distinguished by its own indistinction. Conversely, it is the more indistinct insofar as it is ...
Dominic J. C'Meara, 1982
2
Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror
Lyon cites Giorgio Agamben as a thinker who importantly points out that “the panopticon was a distinct and bounded area; now . . . zones of indistinction are crucial, and in fact, are the locus of power.” And it is to Agamben that I believe we  ...
Aviva Briefel, Sam J. Miller, 2012
3
Home Design Standards Home Building Standards 1Q09
2) Each sheet shall not contain a) text covering text b) text covering dimensions c) dimensions covering text d) abbreviations without a key e) an indistinction as to compass North f) an indistinction as to a drawing's relationship to scale g) an ...
Before The Architect, Ralph & Jean Pressel, Principals
4
Logos and Revelation: Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and ...
As God in his indistinction is free from every creature, he is also free from all difference and thus utterly “detached” from all creatures.27 It can also be inferred from Eckhart's text that God's distinction in indistinction means also that God is ...
Robert J. Dobie, 2010
5
The Dictionary of Human Geography
Agamben's formulation of the space of exception (see EXCEPTION, SPACE OF) identifies a space in which exclusion and inclusion, outside and inside, violence and law 'enter into a zone of irreducible indistinction' where each passes over ...
Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, 2011
6
Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life
philosophy itself becomes a postapocalyptic, post-Auschwitz perspective of conceptual and ethical meltdown, or radical blurring of distinctions, wherein the threshold of indistinction, the gray zone, and the rampant state of exception seem fully ...
Matthew Calarco, Steven DeCaroli, 2007
7
Politics of Literature
This is the second problem, one that no longer involves the social order but art itself: if the future of art is bound up with a new form of indistinction between art and the non-artistic life, and if this indistinction is available to anyone at all, what is ...
Jacques Ranciere, 2011
8
The Culture of Exception: Sociology Facing the Camp
age, consumption patterns, and so on) allowing for the proliferation of heterogeneous insides and outsides, of belongings and enclosures. To put it differently, although the camp is born in a zone of indistinction there are differences between ...
Bulent Diken, Carsten B. Laustsen, 2005
9
Meditation Techniques of the Buddhist and Taoist Masters
The Sovereign of the South Sea was called Rapidly; the Sovereign of the North Sea was called Suddenly; the Sovereign of the Center was called Indistinction. One day, Rapidly and Suddenly met in the country of Indis- tinction, who treated ...
Daniel Odier, 2003
10
And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
The Zone of Indistinction as a Way of Life “ 'Life' is problematic today because new understandings and new technologies that are involved in giving it a form are producing results that escape the philosophical self-understanding provided by ...
Sharon Kaufman, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INDISTINCTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term indistinction is used in the context of the following news items.
1
On Human Equality and the Nonhuman
... or collaborated with the nonhuman—and that the human is characterized precisely by this indistinction from the nonhuman.” Grusin contends ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jul 15»
2
10 Lessons for Bloggers & Brands from West Africa Bloggers …
He settled the dust by saying that this indistinction is similar with every audiences he has asked the same question, across Africa and Middle ... «PC Tech Magazine, Jun 15»
3
Fuck The Police: A Musical Sentiment From NWA To Ferguson
... and warning of violent revenge while Bay Area rapper Mac Dre's 'Punk Police' noted the indistinction between the police and any other gang. «The Quietus, May 15»
4
Why You Should Give Mr. Turner a Chance
... to landscapes marked by muddied colors, fuzzy lines, muted light—a pictorial indistinction that betrays his personal instability and uncertainty ... «Washingtonian.com, May 15»
5
Dear White People Tackles Questions About Race Others Don't …
That might be Simien's point: that for black Americans, white culture, in all its blindness, can seem monolithic to the point of indistinction. Where ... «The Texas Observer, Feb 15»
6
Impossible Seating and Some of the City's Best BBQ at Barrel …
[LA Times]. The Indistinction of Styles: Barrel & Ashes serves everything from hushpuppies and Frito pie to Texas-style smoked brisket. There's ... «Eater LA, Jan 15»
7
Patrick Duegaw's anxious art at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
“A Distorted Sense of Melancholy (or) Contortionist of Indistinction” (1997), like many of its allegorical counterparts spread throughout the ... «Kansas City Star, Dec 14»
8
The body politic: how Pyotr Pavlensky's performance art is breaking …
For, at the end of the day, the dance of indistinction is a truly subversive site — a site where power and the law collapse, where emancipatory ... «The Calvert Journal, Nov 14»
9
Welcome to life in no man's land: The growing perils of the …
It marks not a closure of the border but its increased permeability and indistinction. Another kind of physically diffuse border is seen in the ... «Salon, Nov 14»
10
Television: The total generosity of body donors in 'A Parting Gift'
... of native advertising where the line between advertising and editorial blurs into indistinction? Whatever it is, the starter was hard to swallow. «Irish Times, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Indistinction [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/indistinction>. Apr 2024 ».
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