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Is there a word to refer to the quality of an object (or person) to distinguish other distinct objects?

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  • What's wrong with the noun distinctness?
    – Michael Rybkin
    Mar 22, 2018 at 15:35

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What do you think of the words recognizability, distinguishability and discernibility?

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  • Distinguishability sounds good. Anything fancier?
    – mysan
    Mar 22, 2018 at 17:28
  • Discernibility sounds fancy enough.
    – Michael Rybkin
    Mar 22, 2018 at 17:30
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Well the grammatically correct version of 'separatableness' would be 'separability'.

However I think 'uniqueness' or 'distinctiveness' fits what you're looking for better.

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  • Distinctiveness works well here.
    – James K
    Mar 22, 2018 at 15:41
  • Wouldn't distinctiveness solely mean that the object in consideration is different from other objects? I want to say that the object has the ability to distinguish between other objects.
    – mysan
    Mar 22, 2018 at 17:31
  • Oh so you're saying you have object A, which has the ability to tell the difference between objects B and C. You want to describe that ability of A?
    – Ethan
    Mar 23, 2018 at 8:07
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I'd go with unique, or uniqueness

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