Identifying
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To establish the identity of someone or something.
Example sentence: There's this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that's a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad behavior but I don't think I have trouble with that.
Distinguishing
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: That serves to distinguish.