indiscriminative

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ discriminative.

Adjective

indiscriminative (comparative more indiscriminative, superlative most indiscriminative)

1. Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
   • 2009, Baogang Guo, Dennis V. Hickey, Toward Better Governance in China, page 56:

     To operationalize generalized trust, we focus on the level of indiscriminative trust among individuals.

   • 2016, Chih-yu Shih, Po-tsan Yu, Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered, page 37:

     The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things. As with Daoism, which advocated an all-embracing attitude toward different positions existing in the world, the indiscriminative equalizer reinterpreted seeming divergent phenomena or positions as merely the result of different perspectives.

   • 2017, Krassimir Stojanov, Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action:

     Furthermore, since those changes are responses to new stimuli in the environment, and since every kind of new stimuli or alteration in the environment could trigger such changes, learning is indiscriminative of the normative qualities of objective contents.

   • 2019, Philippe Auby, Clinical Research in Paediatric Psychopharmacology, page 125:

     False-negative indiscriminative studies are often caused by placebo effects.

2. (grammar) Specifying any one from among several equivalent possibilities.
   • 1998, Anastasia Giannakidou, Polarity Sensitivity as (non) Veridical Dependency, page 83:

     Indiscriminative uses of FCIs are common across languages and they have a pejorative flavor.

   • 2012, Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno, Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, page 316:

     We discuss free choice phenomena in detail in Section 6.7, but here it is important to note that the Greek D-universal, but not káthe, has the so-called indiscriminative reading (Horn 2000) that appears in English with just any.

   • 2021, Determiners and Quantifiers: Functions, Variation, and Change, page 255:

     It is thus possible to assume that the indiscriminative interpretation and the evaluative interpretation (Eval) are related.

Translations

Making no distinction; not discriminating

• German: wahllos (de), keinen Unterschied machend, nicht unterscheidend

References

• “indiscriminative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.