Literary notes about Distinguishable (AI summary)
In literature, "distinguishable" is employed to denote that certain features, qualities, or entities can be clearly perceived or separated from others. Authors use the term to mark contrasts: from isolated data that stands apart from larger aggregates [1] and subtle physical traits that reveal differences only upon close inspection [2, 3], to abstract distinctions in philosophical or artistic contexts [4, 5]. It can highlight that two things, though seemingly alike, possess separable attributes—even when those differences emerge only faintly amid greater ambiguity [6, 7, 8]. Overall, the word serves as a means to articulate perceptible separations, whether in concrete visual details or in the nuances of thought and experience [9, 10].
- All countries have been included where the express data is clearly distinguishable from general freight statistics.
— from Selected Articles on the Parcels Post - George stepped on board the ship, nearly naked, painted from head to foot, and in no way distinguishable from his companion until he began to speak.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - Under the trees of the boulevards there were still a few people strolling to and fro, barely distinguishable in the gathering darkness.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - The true Sublime, what it is, and how distinguishable. IV.—cc.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus - Whatever is distinct, is distinguishable; and whatever is distinguishable, is separable by the thought or imagination.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - They were hardly distinguishable, you would think, when they were apart, tho' extremely different when together.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Then out of the confused babel of sound one cry became distinguishable.
— from The Mystics: A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston - For how is it possible we can separate what is not distinguishable, or distinguish what is not different?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - The words they uttered were not distinguishable, but they were both the voices of men.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - This variation, which reality suffers in being reported to perception, turns the report into a mental fact distinguishable from its subject-matter.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
