identifying

English

Verb

identifying

1. present participle and gerund of identify

Adjective

identifying (comparative more identifying, superlative most identifying)

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

   identifying characteristic

Noun

identifying (plural identifyings)

1. An act of identification.
   • 2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page 49:

     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.