identifying
Academic Word List, sublist 1.
About 13.75 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of identify
- adjective Allowing a person or thing to be easily or uniquely distinguished and identified.
identifying characteristic
- noun An act of identification.
Similar words
characteristic distinguishing distinctive identification specify specifying defined defining identifier indicate
Often followed by
the and a with information himself them it those themselves
Word family
identifiable identification identified identifies identify identities identity
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