ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Identificatory

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Identificatory is an adjective meaning Serving to identify something; identifying.

Meaning

Serving to identify something; identifying.

More Meanings

  1. Tending to identify oneself with someone or something; engendering association.

Example Sentences

The important distinction between descriptive and identificatory nonverbal clauses[…]
Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?
Her attitude to L-DOPA became one of detached and humorous resignation, as did her attitude to her own symptoms and disabilities; she ceased to envy the patients who were flying aloft on L-DOPA, or to view with identificatory terror those patients who had done badly on the drug[…]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include identificational, identitary, disidentificatory, designative, specificative, specificatory.

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