Characteristic and Identifying

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Characteristic adjective - Serving to identify as belonging to an individual or group.

Usage example: the characteristic taste of licorice

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Identifying and characteristic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Identifying" instead an adjective "Characteristic".

Identifying adjective - Serving to identify as belonging to an individual or group.

Usage example: the marching band's striking black-and-silver uniforms serve as its identifying mark for thousands of parade spectators

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Characteristic and identifying are semantically related. You can use "Characteristic" instead an adjective "Identifying".

Similarly, Irena's only identifying characteristic in Breaking Dawn is her grieving for the loss of Laurent, and Jane is always shown as a sister and as Aro's servant.

Source: Never a Self-Made Woman
In fact, Rand has memorized the name or identifying characteristic of every woman who died because of him or while in his service.

Source: Wouldn't Hit a Girl aka: Would Not Hit A Girl
Featureless Protagonist: The only identifying characteristic for the player's character is his gender.

Source: Pinball / Banzai Run

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