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/aɪdˌɛntəfəkˈeɪʃən/ /aɪdˌɛnəfəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Identification

noun

The act of designating or identifying something. Synonym: designation.

Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing.

The condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established. "Identification of the gun was an important clue"

The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering. Synonym: recognition. "Experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer"

The attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons).

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"Identification" Quotes from Famous Books

... and on which their character and services would appear. For lack of such papers, seamen by hundreds were in London in distress, although large amounts of money were due them at prize agencies, where the agent feared to pay for want of identification. A certificate showing five years' faithful service should entitle the holder to an annual bounty of two guineas, to be increased by further periods. Such provisions were well calculated to appeal to men accustomed to entertain prudential considerations, and to ...

— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

... The identification of the industrial and political interests of the nation with the fortunes of the centralized state was necessarily accompanied by a marked change in the character of international trade. The national king, whose power rested so largely upon the industrial ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... gathered around the fire. I found the big arm-chair unoccupied, and, seating myself on its comfortable cushion, soon forgot the wonder I had felt that the woman in the next room had known me for a soldier. I had accomplished one thing—the identification of the prospective horse-thief—and I satisfied myself with that. As for Leroy, I knew I should have to trust to some stroke ...

— A Little Union Scout • Joel Chandler Harris

... imagination, which have the power of affecting the mind with an equal degree of terror, admiration, delight, or love. When Lear calls upon the heavens to avenge his cause, "for they are old like him," there is nothing extravagant or impious in this sublime identification of his age with theirs; for there is no other image which could do justice to the agonising sense of his wrongs and ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... note of introduction to him, and also a paper of identification, by which I may substantiate my claim to a half-ownership in the ...

— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

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