differentia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a distinguishing feature that separates a species, class, or concept from other members of the same genus

   Russell asks whether a particular feeling is the differentia of belief.

Borrowed from Latin differentia ("difference, diversity"), from differre ("to carry apart, differ"). Scholastic logic uses it for the feature that distinguishes a species within a genus.

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