identification
- noun
- /ˌaɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Many young people experience identification with the characters in their favorite books, often seeing parts of themselves in their stories.
- self-identification
- ethnic identification
- racial identification
There is complete identification with thought and emotion.
- There is complete identification with thought and emotion.
- If you let go of these commitments, of these identifications, you get free.
- This shift in this self identification culture is not just applying to race.
- Now the N is normally standing in Buddhist terms for non identification.
- But like, in terms of how she turns out, in terms of her gender identification, I don't think I matter.
- And this produces a kind of not empathy as such, but rather identification.
- And I'm pretty certain that sooner or later the identification with Caesar will be completely challenged.
- She only said the only thing she said was that she has deep reservations about what's going on as far as self identification is concerned.
- You know, I like the snap your finger moment, like yes, yes, that, that, that feels like that moment of identification.
- If we look at the most obvious case, which is the whole question of transgenderism and the idea of gender self identification.
- That doesn't mean some sort of strict party line identification, but he certainly seems to be taking Karniade's line in in this.
Examples
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This is called belonging, this is called identification because you are trying to find the certainty of death in the seamless process of life.
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To a degree, I have been responsible for my continued identification with Dead Poets Society.
Fiction book (1991) -
We engage in, as he says, a kind of identification with the other.
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There is complete identification with thought and emotion.
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The first concern was to create two groups based on their identification with the athletic role.
Academic text (1999) -
Because of their symbolic identification with human beings.
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If you let go of these commitments, of these identifications, you get free.
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And I'm pretty certain that sooner or later the identification with Caesar will be completely challenged.
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Part of displaying one's national identity is showing identification with and responsibility for other co-nationals.
Academic text (1999) -
In reality, CLD students have limited opportunities to develop their intellectual identities and identification with academics.
Academic text (2011)
Antonyms
- Specialized
A mental state where part of a person's memory or feelings feels separate
Compounds
- Specialized
A secret number you use to prove who you are and open accounts
- Specialized
A way of identifying people automatically using unique body traits like fingerprints or face
- Specialized
To find which gun fired a bullet by matching marks on the bullet and its case
- Specialized
A code of digits that shows which bank or card company handles a payment
- Specialized
A very small particle added to a product to show where it came from
- Specialized
A way to show someone is not one of the known people so they cannot make multiple accounts
How Strong
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Identification comes from old Latin words idem ('same') and facere ('to make') and shares its root with identity. To identify with someone is to 'make yourself the same' as them, which explains why identification can mean feeling a close connection or sharing another person's traits.