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identification noun [ ʌɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n ]

• the action or process of identifying someone or something or the fact of being identified.
• "each child was tagged with a number for identification"
Similar: recognition, singling out, picking out, spotting, pointing out, pinpointing, naming, placing, discerning, distinguishing, discovery, finding, location, fingering,
• a person's sense of identity with someone or something.
• "children's identification with story characters"
Similar: empathy, rapport, fellow feeling, togetherness, unity, bond of sympathy, sympathetic cord, sympathy, understanding, good vibes,
• the association or linking of one thing with another.
• "the lesser value attributed to humility is often due to the mistaken identification of humility with lowness"
Similar: association, link, linkage, connection, tie, bracketing, relatedness, interrelation, interconnection, interdependence,
Origin: mid 17th century: originally from medieval Latin identificat- ‘identified’, from the verb identificare ; later from identify.


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