differentiated

English

Verb

differentiated

1. simple past and past participle of differentiate

Adjective

differentiated (comparative more differentiated, superlative most differentiated)

1. (biology, of a cell or tissue) That has taken on a specialized form and function.
2. (figurative) Making fine distinctions.
   • 2023 December 14, Kate Connolly, quoting Masha Gessen, “Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “I am aware that this type of comparison, especially in Germany, is quickly seen as relativising the Holocaust. That’s why it’s so important to me that such a differentiated and intelligent thinker like Arendt didn’t shy away from this comparison,” Gessen told the newspaper.

Antonyms

• undifferentiated

Translations

that has taken on a specialized form and function

• Italian: differenziato (it)
• Serbo-Croatian: diferenciran m