misidentification
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- noun
- /ˌmɪsˌaɪdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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mala identificación
- For the last decade or so, he'd been subject to these embarrassing misidentifications, taking young scientists for children or servants when he met them out of context.
- delusional misidentification
- delusion of misidentification
- lead to misidentification
It permits certain possible misidentifications to be stripped away.
- It permits certain possible misidentifications to be stripped away.
Examples
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The current study supports a similar memory bias that may lead to eyewitness misidentification when witnesses, particularly older witnesses, must identify individuals of a different age.
Academic text (2006) -
The use of morphologic characteristics alone to identify this organism was inadequate and led to misidentification of the species.
Academic text (2014) -
If our interpretation of our findings is correct, then the usual concern about misidentification is turned on its head for two reasons.
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Misidentification with a familiar person in this case, yourself - is a classical symptom in these cases.
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I have a patient in hospital who suffers from this delusional misidentification.
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Here are several easy-to-implement procedures that have been proven to significantly decrease the number of misidentifications.
Blog text (14) -
Unconfirmed sightings of whim sharks in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer months may be misidentifications.
Academic text (1994) -
In this paper, I consider a theory developed within cognitive neuropsychiatry to explain two delusions of misidentification: the Capgras and the Cotard delusions.
Academic text (1999) -
In addition, researchers working with large data sets can develop criteria for identifying data that contain systematic errors, such as species misidentifications or misinterpretations of protocols, and can omit such data from analysis without compromising the goals of the project.
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Many cases of wrongful conviction are the result of misidentification by eyewitnesses.
Synonyms
Using the wrong name for someone or something
A wrong idea about yourself or another person that changes how you act
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
misidentification = misidentify (transparent) = mis + identify + ation
Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ation' to the verb 'misidentify' (mis- + identify), yielding 'the act of identifying wrongly', a directly deducible meaning for learners.
Etymology
Misidentification starts with mis- meaning 'wrong' and the part identify, which is the same part you see in identity and identical and comes from a word for 'same'. So a misidentification is a 'wrong' identifying — a mistake when someone or something is named or recognized incorrectly.