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identification

identification

29 3.9
Feeling close to another person or group and taking on their habits
  • noun
  • /ˌaɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : identificación (psicológica)
  • 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.

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Examples

  • This is called belonging, this is called identification because you are trying to find the certainty of death in the seamless process of life.

  • 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.

  • There is complete identification with thought and emotion.

  • 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.

  • If you let go of these commitments, of these identifications, you get free.

  • And I'm pretty certain that sooner or later the identification with Caesar will be completely challenged.

  • 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

disassociation
  • Specialized
3 8.4

A mental state where part of a person's memory or feelings feels separate

Compounds

Clear proof that a person is who they say they are

1 3.0

A secret number you use to prove who you are and open accounts

1 5.3

A way of identifying people automatically using unique body traits like fingerprints or face

A request by a guard or official for a person to show identity papers

7.2

To find which gun fired a bullet by matching marks on the bullet and its case

3.7

A code of digits that shows which bank or card company handles a payment

9.9

A very small particle added to a product to show where it came from

7.7

A way to show someone is not one of the known people so they cannot make multiple accounts

talker identification
  • Specialized
7.5

To tell who someone is from their voice

6.8

Finding who a person is from the sound of their voice

How Strong

identification
  • Specialized
29 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

identification = identify (semi-transparent) = identify + ation

Formally a nominalization of 'identify', but the psychological/social sense ('identifying with someone') is a more abstract, context-dependent extension of the basic verb.

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.