Literary notes about indistinguishable (AI summary)
The word "indistinguishable" serves as a versatile tool in literature, often used to blur boundaries between characters, objects, or abstract ideas. It can describe physical features that merge into a nondescript whole—whether it's the nearly identical forms of figures in nature or human figures rendered into a shadowy mass ([1], [2], [3])—or convey subtle nuances in behavior, sound, or experience, such as murmurs that blend into an unrecognizable noise ([4], [5], [6]). At times, it underscores moments where critical differences become negligible, as in the nearly identical rituals of deities or the merging of scientific observation with common sense ([7], [8]). In each instance, the term enriches the narrative by inviting readers to question the clarity of definition and the limits of perception.
- Certainly he was irritable, and unclad females virtually indistinguishable from human weren’t the most soothing objects to contemplate.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - He looked up; there again was the form, its features indistinguishable in the foliage.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang - It was now almost dark and her white fur was indistinguishable against the snow below.
— from The Princess Pocahontas by Virginia Watson - She dealt them in piles, then gathered them up, and then dealt them out again, murmuring indistinguishable words.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - The words were indistinguishable, but a warning was in the voice.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower - One sentence alone I caught, as the indistinguishable tones flew by.
— from An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton - Such a view could certainly not have been held if the rituals of the two gods had not been so alike as to be almost indistinguishable.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - Science, when it has no more scope than this, is indistinguishable from common sense.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
