Definition of "indistinct" []

• Not clearly or sharply delineated: an indistinct pattern; indistinct shapes in the gloom. (adjective)
• Faint; dim: indistinct stars. (adjective)
• Hazy; vague: an indistinct memory; an indistinct notion of how to proceed. (adjective)
• Difficult to understand or make out: indistinct speech. (adjective)

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• "Carey wants to have it both ways: it is because literature can "communicate" more effectively and it can also remain "indistinct" in the manner common to all the arts that it is ultimately the most valuable of the arts."
• "In addition, there are approximately three million Burakumin “hamlet people”, who are culturally, ethnically, and religiously indistinct from the Japanese—and yet the Japanese consider them a separate group and discriminate against them."
• "Unlike the distinct representation of a triangle whereby the intellect distinguishes parts and aspects of the triangle from one another, a sensuous representation is clear but indistinct, that is to say, to have a sensuous representation is to perceive something without intellectually distinguishing its parts or aspects."