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. Adam Waytz:

   In general, humans care about other humans, so when we humanize something inanimate, it makes us care about the thing more, naming things can make them more memorable, easier to recall, and certainly it makes things feel more fluent or easy to process. Given that work shows that easily processed information takes on outsized importance in our minds, it is likely that naming things can give them importance as well.

2. Bob Grant:

   Naming Hillary “The Dragon Lady”

3. Jeffrey Lewis:

   North Korea has usually tried to hide this facility by not naming it, sometimes it is unnamed; in other cases only the name of the plant manager was given.

4. 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.

5. Carlos Magdalena:

   For almost two decades, I have been scrutinizing every single picture of wild Victoria waterlilies over the internet, a luxury that a botanist from the 18th, 19th and most of the 20th century didn't have, i have learnt so much in the process of officially naming this new species and it's been the biggest achievement of my 20-year career at Kew.