distinguishable

adjective

dis·​tin·​guish·​able -shəbəl 

1

: capable of being distinguished : separable, divisible, discernible

have maintained that dialectic and rhetoric are distinguishable stages of argumentation

—R. M. Weaver

an essay with a meaning that was not always distinguishable

a project distinguishable into four separate stages of progress

2

obsolete : distinguished, distinctive, eminent

distinguishableness

-nə̇s

noun

plural -es

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