identifying

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identifying

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of identify

adjective more identifying · most identifying

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

noun identifyings

  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.

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Closest in meaning: characteristic, distinguishing, distinctive, identification, specify, specifying, defined, defining, identifier, indicate, revealing, clarifying, designate, designation, define, detecting

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@misc{identifying_2026,
  title = {identifying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/identifying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}