distinguishing

Speech parts

1. distinguishing - Noun

2. distinguishing - Adjective

3. distinguishing - Verb

Meaning

of Distinguish

Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

different particular individual specific separate noted unique contrast describe typical identify recognition unusual tell characteristic
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Antonyms

common general conventional covering hiding affinity
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Phrases with the word

distinguishing feature distinguishing mark age of distinguishing between right and wrong

Examples

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. Nora Ephron

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. Antonin Artaud

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. Carl Friedrich Gauss

Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others. Geert Hofstede

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. Rollo May

Close letter words and terms

distinguishedly distinguishedness distinguisher distinguishing between distinguishing characteristic distinguishing feature