distinguishment

distinguish +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈtɪŋɡ.wɪʃ.mənt/

distinguishment (countable and uncountable, plural distinguishments)

1. A distinction; observation of difference.
   • 1865, John Grote, Exploratio philosophica: rough notes on modern intellectual science, Part 1, University of Cambridge, page 50:

     "We notice what we notice and make it a thing distinguishing it from what else is within our view, partly because, doubtless, it is of such or such a size and shape: but we require more impulse to the notice and distinguishment than this furnishes."

   • 1833; Samuel Lewis Southard, Joseph Hendrickson, Thomas L. Shotwell, Edward Hopper; Argument of Samuel L. Southard: in the case of Stacy Decow and Joseph Hendrickson versus Thomas L. Shotwell, page 157:

     "And first, in your doctrines of God, whom you say is to be known and believed on, as in the distinguishment of three persons...

• similarity

• distinction

distinguishment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.