Synonyms for defining
dɪˈfaɪ nɪŋdefin·ing

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1. shaping, definingnoun

   any process serving to define the shape of something

   Synonyms:
   shaping, formation

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1. • Process

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1. List of paraphrases for "defining":

   define, definition, determining, setting, identify, identifying, defined, defines, set, decisive, outlining, establishing, determine

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1. John Feinblatt:

   Gun safety is going to be a defining issue for 2020, the gun safety movement has never been stronger and the gun rights movement has never been weaker.

2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Defining a clear persona helps you guide your brand and business efforts so that they meet your customer's needs.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   To anyone who has ever wondered what you would have done during those defining moments that we read about in history books -- whether you would have risked arrest to demand votes for women or bled on the Edmund Pettus bridge to demand voting rights for all -- the answer is what you are doing now could be as important as anything that anyone has done before.

4. Freedom Caucus:

   This is not a decision made on personalities, it's made on policies, in my opinion, just speaking candidly, this is a defining moment for our nation, but it's also a defining moment for the Freedom Caucus.

5. Walter Lippmann:

   Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.