Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

identificatory

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: iden-ti-fi-ca-to-ry
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving to identify something; identifying.

adj

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[…]"

Derived Forms

disidentificatory

Questions

What does identificatory mean?: Serving to identify something; identifying.

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