"absolute distinction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean that two or more things are completely different from one another. For example, "The distinction between the two products is an absolute distinction; they could not be more different from each other."
In Ireland it is impossible to make an absolute distinction between organised crime and terrorism.
The violation of CP symmetry enables physicists to make an absolute distinction between matter and antimatter.
Mr Quine developed a theory of language according to which truths of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no absolute distinction between the two.
While for some anti-Zionism is always synonymous with antisemitism, it is more accurate to suggest that in at least some cases many anti-Zionists are naive to assume an absolute distinction between Jews and Zionism.
As I read farther into her work, I came to believe that generational arrogance is just one of the many fixed categories on which her criticism depends; another is the absolute distinction, as suggested in the title of that essay, between "trash" and "art".
Among the smaller offerings — there's no absolute distinction between appetizers and main courses — the fried baby artichoke, which comes with a Kumamoto oyster, mussel broth, and grapefruit foam, is a persuasive exercise in opposing textures (from crispy to slimy) and tastes (from briny to citrus).
These oppositions represent a range along a continuum of risk behaviour rather than being absolute distinctions.
The new response will be characterized by such terms as ceaseless vigilance, overwhelming retaliation, the remorseless pursuit and irrevocable punishment of the wicked and all who condone and help them and, above all, by absolute distinctions between good and evil, which have become hopelessly blurred in this liberal age.
N.B.: In terms of the above dimensions, it is generally a question of degree rather than of absolute distinctions.
However, it is increasingly debated whether such absolute distinctions between diagnoses exist; comorbidity is the rule rather than the exception, individuals often cross diagnostic boundaries over time, and there are 'boundary disputes' about how to classify presentations that fall between categories (Mineka, Watson, & Clark, 1998; Widiger & Samuel, 2005).
It is too coarse-grained to pick up on the absolute/non-absolute distinction; it indiscriminately tracks the following-from relation plus an absolutely necessary source.
