Usually means: Identifying differences between objects, concepts.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word distinguishing:

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  1. distinguishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. distinguishing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distinguishing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. distinguishing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Distinguishing, distinguishing: Wordnik
  6. distinguishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. distinguishing: Wiktionary
  8. distinguishing: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Distinguishing, distinguishing: Dictionary.com
  10. distinguishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Distinguishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Distinguishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. distinguishing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. distinguishing: Rhymezone
  15. Distinguishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. distinguishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. distinguishing: FreeDictionary.org
  18. distinguishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distinguishing: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That serves to distinguish.
▸ noun:  The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.

Similar:
distinctive, characteristic, identifying, distinctual, discriminative, demarcative, discriminable, separative, diacritical, isolatable, more...

Opposite:
indistinct, common, ordinary, undistinguished, unremarkable

Types:
physical, academic, athletic, behavioral, intellectual, creative, artistic, musical, dramatic, language, more...

Phrases:
distinguishing characteristic, distinguishing pennant, distinguishing feature, distinguishing features, distinguishing trait, more...

Adjectives:
worth, most, characteristic, first, major, hard, variable, mere, main, further, particular

Colors:
    crimson,     cerulean,     chartreuse,     vermilion,     indigo, more...



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Similar:
distinctive, characteristic, identifying, distinctual, discriminative, demarcative, discriminable, separative, diacritical, isolatable, more...

Opposite:
indistinct, common, ordinary, undistinguished, unremarkable

Types:
physical, academic, athletic, behavioral, intellectual, creative, artistic, musical, dramatic, language, more...

Phrases:
distinguishing characteristic, distinguishing pennant, distinguishing feature, distinguishing features, distinguishing trait, distinguishing mark, distinguishing mark of office or honor, more...

Adjectives:
worth, most, characteristic, first, major, hard, variable, mere, main, further, particular

Colors:
    crimson,     cerulean,     chartreuse,     vermilion,     indigo, more...



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