discriminative

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Moreover, it promotes the use of more comprehensive and discriminative features.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

Our skin gives us the power of discriminative touch, which allows us to feel the pressure, texture and vibration of objects.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

Light touch, also known as discriminative touch, is a light pressure that allows the location of a stimulus to be pinpointed.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

"I would like to reinforce that I do not and will not condone discriminative language or behaviour of any kind aimed at the Jewish community or any other community."

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

It is in this deliberate and discriminative sense that I have used the term conviction in relation to the Master and his “Great Work.”

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)