DIFFERENTIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: differentiae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("differentia" is a kind of...):

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

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