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INDISCRIMINATION

Definition: INDISCRIMINATION

INDISCRIMINATION

Noun

1. Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: INDISCRIMINATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Comparison

Discrimination; indiscrimination a; identification b.

Indiscrimination

Noun: indiscrimination, indistinguishability; indistinctness, indistinction; uncertainty; (doubt); incomparability; a.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: INDISCRIMINATION

English words defined with "INDISCRIMINATION": Indistinction. (references)

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Usage Frequency: INDISCRIMINATION

"INDISCRIMINATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INDISCRIMINATION" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: INDISCRIMINATION

Expression using "INDISCRIMINATION": indiscrimination a. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: INDISCRIMINATION

Language Translations for "INDISCRIMINATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pazotësi i dallimit, pa kriter. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏اللاتمييز. (various references)

   

Czech

  

indiskriminace. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

عدم تشخیص , عدم تبعیض , بی نظری . (various references)

   

French

  

manque de discernement. (various references)

   

German

  

Wahllosigkeiten (randomness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חוסר "בח ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megkülönböztetõ képesség hiánya. (various references)

   

Italian

  

indiscriminazione. (various references)

   

Manx

  

neulhiettrimaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indiscriminationay

   

Portuguese

  

indiscriminado (promise, wholesale). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неумение разбираться, неразборчивость (illegibility). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nerazlikovanje. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), gelişigüzellik (casualness, promiscuity), ayırt edememe, ayıramama. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

неуміння розбиратися, неперебірливість. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự không phân biệt, sự bừa bãi (carnival, disorder, disorderliness, messiness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: INDISCRIMINATION

Derivations

Words beginning with "INDISCRIMINATION": indiscriminations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "INDISCRIMINATION"

Words rhyming with "INDISCRIMINATION" (pronounced 'In`dis*crim`i*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: INDISCRIMINATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-i-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-s-t"

-2 letters: discrimination, incriminations.

-3 letters: incrimination.

-4 letters: criminations, discriminant.

-5 letters: crimination, indications.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-i-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: indiscriminations.

 

+2 letters: antidiscrimination.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: INDISCRIMINATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 44 49 53 43 52 49 4D 49 4E 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -..    ..    ...    -.-.    .-.    ..    --    ..    -.    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01000100 01001001 01010011 01000011 01010010 01001001 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#78 &#68 &#73 &#83 &#67 &#82 &#73 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0044 0049 0053 0043 0052 0049 004D 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43483843533752434743483554434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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