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identifying

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of identifypresent participle and gerund of identify

adjective

  1. 1

    Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.

    identifying characteristic

noun

  1. 1

    An act of identification.

    There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.

Forms

plural
identifyings
comparative
more identifying
superlative
most identifying
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).