(a.) Causing, or being to cause, separation.

ablative biodegradable characteristic characterizing contrastive corrosive decomposable decomposing degradable diacritical diagnostic differencing differential differentiative dilapidated discriminating discriminative disintegrable disintegrated disintegrating disintegrative disjunctive disruptive distinctive distinguishing dividing erosive ethnocentric exceptional excluding exclusive exclusory idiosyncratic inadmissible individualizing individuating insular moldering narrow parochial parting peculiar personalizing preclusive prescriptive preventive prohibitive ravaged resolvent restrictive ruinous seclusive segregative select selective separating snobbish solvent worn xenophobic