distinctive feature

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   an odd or unusual characteristic

   Synonymspeculiaritydistinguishing characteristic

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Questions about distinctive feature

What does distinctive feature mean?

distinctive feature means "an odd or unusual characteristic".

What is another word for distinctive feature?

Close synonyms include peculiarity, distinguishing characteristic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is distinctive feature a common word?

distinctive feature is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.