Usage of "distinguishing characteristic"

португальский

carácter distintivo

каталонский

peculiaritat

испанский

peculiaridad

An odd or unusual characteristic.

carácter distintivo

Синонимы

Examples for "peculiarity"

peculiarity
distinctive feature

Examples for "peculiarity"

The peculiarity of these debates was the prevailing discussion of general principles. 
 Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George... 

This personal peculiarity varies with the age and conditions of the individual. 
 A Mortal Antipathy 

But being young she didn't pay too much attention to this peculiarity. 
 Ghosts 

The stomach of the camel is the third peculiarity which distinguishes it. 
 Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon 

His peculiarity of temperament was in accord surely with nothing in Charmian. 
 The Way of Ambition 

The distinctive feature in Jewish faith is its historical and teleological character. 
 Outspoken Essays 

The distinctive feature of Conscience is its close relation to the Will. 
 Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics 

The distinctive feature of Pentecostalism is its emphasis on the Holy Spirit. 
 Christianity: the first three thousand years 

The ear-rings are the most distinctive feature of the Kayan woman's adornment. 
 The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor... 

The new golden dome, its most distinctive feature, is now nearly complete. 
 Reuters 

Использование термина distinguishing characteristic на английском

The great distinguishing characteristic of a Mason is sympathy with his kind. 
 Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr... 

It's as if they've had every distinguishing characteristic vacuumed out of them. 
 Library of Souls 

But to Darrell the pre-eminently distinguishing characteristic of that face was the eyes. 
 At the Time Appointed 

This fact gives the most distinguishing characteristic to her literary methods. 
 George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philoso... 

The shared aa's were considered a distinguishing characteristic of the epitope. 
 Pubmed 

One distinguishing characteristic of New Testament miracles is their economy of miraculous power. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts 

But, Mr. President, debt is the distinguishing characteristic of modern society. 
 American Eloquence, Volume 4 / Studies In American Political His... 

Alteration in cardiac extracellular matrix is a distinguishing characteristic of these pathological processes. 
 Pubmed 

I remembered that this was a distinguishing characteristic of the man. 
 White Hunter, Black Heart 

Did you think your only distinguishing characteristic was the shape of your face? 
 The Hidden Places 

This is the distinguishing characteristic of a gentleman and a man of the world. 
 The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (... 

And this is the distinguishing characteristic of English farming generally. 
 A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way 

His distinguishing characteristic was the power of assuming different shapes. 
 McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader 

Neither of the two tunnels had a single distinguishing characteristic. 
 The Complete Rama Omnibus 

Freedom cannot, therefore, form the distinguishing characteristic of democratic ages. 
 Democracy in America — Volume 2 

They are very rocky, but they want granite, the distinguishing characteristic of primitive mountains. 
 Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony ... 