Synonyms for naming
nam·ing

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1. namingnoun

   the verbal act of naming

   "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals"

   Synonyms:
   appointment, assignment, designation

   Antonyms:
   connotative

2. appointment, assignment, designation, namingadjective

   the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

   "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"

   Synonyms:
   duty assignment, appellation, appointment, date, appellative, assigning, designation, appointee, identification, assignment, grant, fitting, engagement, denomination

   Antonyms:
   connotative

3. appellative, naming(a)adjective

   inclined to or serving for the giving of names

   "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"

   Antonyms:
   connotative

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1. List of paraphrases for "naming":

   nomenclature, designation, baptism, name, appoint, appointing, christening, appellation, appointment, denomination, designating

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1. Neha Ojha:

   We were all waiting for him (Kundan) to host the naming ceremony of our daughter. Now we're preparing to hold his final rites.

2. The President:

   You'll excuse the point of personal privilege -- I'll never forget you standing, Mitch, and saying, naming it after my deceased son. It meant a lot.

3. Dick Durbin:

   The administration position was defended by both of them in terms of what we had done naming 17 people who would suffer because we believed they were involved. But there was no satisfying answer about how it is possible that this could have occurred without the crown prince's knowledge or direction.

4. David Johns:

   So much of what the policies are designed to do and the language more specifically … is to tell people that they don’t matter, that their contributions, their history, their ways of attempting to strengthen democracy do not matter and should not have a place in the version of America that they are now naming as classical.

5. Donald Trump:

   They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday, it's almost as if the bigger the lie, the more obvious the injustice, the more furious the pace of this bizarre behavior, the more incapable we are of seeing it and clearly naming it and acting against it.