discriminable

[ dih-skrim-uh-nuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being discriminated or distinguished.

Other Words From

• dis·crimi·na·bili·ty noun
• dis·crimi·na·bly 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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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