distinctive
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (rare) Discriminating, discerning, having the ability to distinguish between things.Examples: "[…]more judicious and distinctive heads..."rare
2. (rare) Distinguished, being distinct in character or position.Examples: "The refugees... at length ceased to exist as a distinctive body among the people."rare
3. (Hebrew grammar, of accents) Used to separate clauses in place of stops.Examples: "These are the main distinctive accents, and by stopping at them... the reader will do justice to the sense."Hebrew
4. (linguistics, of sounds) Distinguishing a particular sense of word.Examples: "Normally we symbolize only phonemes (distinctive features) so far as we can determine them."
noun (English)
1. (Hebrew grammar) A distinctive accent.Examples: "A distinctive of less power than Zakeph is Ṭiphḥâ."Hebrew
2. (theology) A distinctive belief, tenet, or dogma of a denomination or sect.Examples: "Mennonites could go forth somewhat detached from the chauvinism of Western culture—but not so from the Mennonite distinctives."
Definition source: Wiktionary