distinctual

English

Etymology

distinct +‎ -ual

Adjective

distinctual (comparative more distinctual, superlative most distinctual)

1. Distinctive; serving to allow distinctions.
   • 1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov:

     'In the normal instances of life,' he said in that complacently doctrinaire tone of voice with which he had once argued with Grigory Vasilyevich about religious faith, teasing him as he stood at Fyodor Pavlovich's table, 'in the normal instances of life, beating servants is indeed forbidden by the law nowadays, and the masters have all stopped beating us, sir, well, but in the distinctual instances of life, and not only in Russia, but in all the world, even though it be the very French Republic itself, they continue to beat us, just as they did in the time of Adam and Eve, sir, and they will never stop it, sir, and yet you even in a distinctual instance did not dare, sir.'

   • 1999, John L. Kundert-Gibbs, No-thing is Left to Tell, page 25:

     Thus, for example, the state that precedes the two distinctual states, being and nonbeing, can be termed "without-being" ( thus it follows that the term Mu, which is most often translated as "no-thing," would be "without-thing").

   • 2018, Chad Evely, Edward Farris, In His Own Words, page 186:

     I couldn't hear any specific noise; it wasn't distinctual because there was so much noise; it was all noise; there was just noise everywhere.