See short story with moral that may be discrete (9)
I believe the answer is:
separable
'discrete' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'see short story with moral' is the wordplay.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'story with moral' becomes 'parable' (I've seen this before).
'see' with its final letter taken off is 'se'.
'se'+'parable'='SEPARABLE'
'that may be' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for separable that I've seen before include "not permanently joined together?" , "That may be disjoined" .)