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1. namingnoun

   the verbal act of naming

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

   Antonyms:
   connotative

   Synonyms:
   appointment, assignment, designation

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"

   Antonyms:
   connotative

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

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

How to use naming in a sentence?

1. The President:

   I'll still never forget when we passed the cancer proposal in the last year I was vice president, almost $ 9 million going to NIH, 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.

2. Seth Dillon:

   We were doing a satirical take on USA Today recently naming Rachel Levine, a transgender individual, as one of their picks for women of the year. So we did a satirical take on this, and we named Rachel Levine as our man of the year, twitter didn’t like that very much.

3. Abraham Harold Maslow:

   Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

4. Irene Montero:

   Naming feminicides is to do justice, the most basic exercise of reparation with all victims of sexist violence.

5. Anne Meyer:

   We thought last year with everyone at home, it would be something fun to do, to have a naming contest, and oh my goodness did it take off.

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