"indistinguishability" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: indistinguishabilities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} indistinguishability (countable and uncountable, plural indistinguishabilities)
  1. The state of being indistinguishable Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: indistinguishable Translations (the state of being indistinguishable): indistingibilitat [feminine] (Catalan), indistinguabilité [feminine] (French), megkülönböztethetetlenség (Hungarian), indistinguibilità [feminine] (Italian), indistingibilitate [feminine] (Romanian)

Inflected forms

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