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I.D.

I.D. is the abbreviation of identification or identity documentation.

I.D. is the initialism of intelligent design.

Meaning of intelligent design

Noun

intelligent design (uncountable)

  1. The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.
    • Anaxagoras (500–428 B.C.) was the first of the Greeks "to attribute the adaptations of Nature to Intelligent Design, and was thus the founder of Teleology," an idea that has played a retarding function in the history of evolution.1926, Horatio Hackett Newman, chapter 2, in Evolution, Genetics And Eugenics, page 13

Forms of I.D.

pluralI.D.s

Phrases with I.D.

Questions about I.D.

What is I.D. the abbreviation of?
I.D. is the abbreviation of identification or identity documentation.

Words near I.D. in the dictionary

  1. I. M.
  2. i.a.
  3. I.C.
  4. I.C.s
  5. I.C.S.R.
  6. I.D.
  7. I.D.s
  8. i.e.
  9. i.i.d.
  10. i.m.
  11. I.O.U.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: I.D. (page history and authors); intelligent design (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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