distinguishing characteristic vs characteristic

characteristic vs distinguishing characteristic

distinguishing characteristic and characteristic both are nouns.

distinguishing characteristic is not an adjective while characteristic is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distinguishing characteristic	Yes	No	No	No
characteristic	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, characteristic is a hypernym of distinguishing characteristic; that is, characteristic is a word with a broader meaning than distinguishing characteristic:

distinguishing characteristic: an odd or unusual characteristic
characteristic: a prominent attribute or aspect of something

Other hypernyms of distinguishing characteristic include feature.

distinguishing characteristic (noun)	characteristic (noun)
an odd or unusual characteristic	a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something
	any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions
	a prominent attribute or aspect of something
	the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

distinguishing characteristic (adjective)	characteristic (adjective)
	typical or distinctive

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