identification

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: i=den=ti=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

identification, n. [Cf. F. identification.].

 The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

identification, n.
1 the act or an instance of identifying.
2 a means of identifying a person.
3 (attrib.) serving to identify (esp. the bearer) (identification card).

Idiom

identification parade an assembly of persons from whom a suspect is to be identified.

THESAURUS

identification

ID card, affiliation, allergy, anaphylaxis, appellation, apperception, appraisal, assessment, assimilation, association, association by contiguity, association of ideas, authentication, badge, baptism, calligram, calling, calling card, card, caring, cataloguing, categorization, categorizing, certification, characterization, chord, christening, clang association, classification, classifying, coalescence, combination, concern, connection, considerateness, controlled association, corroboration, countermark, countersign, credentials, definition, delicacy, denomination, denotation, designation, detection, differentiation, disclosure, distinguishing, distinguishment, dog tag, echo, empathy, establishment, evaluation, expression, exquisiteness, factoring, fellow feeling, fineness, fingering, free association, fusion, gauging, grouping, hint, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification badge, identification tag, indication, indicativeness, initials, involvement, irritability, letter of introduction, manifestation, meaning, mental linking, merger, monogram, naming, negative transference, nervousness, nicknaming, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, pathos, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, picking out, pinpointing, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, positive transference, press card, prickliness, rapport, realization, recognition, reidentification, relating, relationship, response, responsiveness, selection, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, serial number, sharing, show, showing, sifting, sifting out, signature, signification, soreness, sorting, sorting out, specification, stream of consciousness, styling, substantiation, suggestion, supersensitivity, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, symptomaticness, synesthesia, synthesis, tact, tactfulness, tenderness, terming, tessera, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, transference, unification, union, verification, vibes, vibrations, visiting card, weighing, winnowing

ROGET THESAURUS

identification

Identity

N identity, sameness, coincidence, coalescence, convertibility, equality, selfness, self, oneself, identification, monotony, tautology, facsimile, homoousia: alter ego, ipsissima verba, same, self, very, one and the same, very thing, actual thing, real McCoy, no other, one and only, in the flesh, identical, self, ilk, the same, selfsame, one and the same, homoousian, coincide, coalescent, coalescing, indistinguishable, one, equivalent, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, much the same, of a muchness, unaltered, identically, on all fours.

Comparison

N comparison, collation, contrast, identification, comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity, simile, similitude, analogy (similarity), allegory, matching, pattern-matching, ratio, proportion (number), discrimination, indiscrimination, identification, comparative, metaphorical, compared with, comparable, judged by comparison, relatively, as compared with, comparisons are odious, comparisons are odorous, comparison, collation, contrast, identification, comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity, simile, similitude, analogy (similarity), allegory, matching, pattern-matching, ratio, proportion (number), discrimination, indiscrimination, identification, comparative, metaphorical, compared with, comparable, judged by comparison, relatively, as compared with, comparisons are odious, comparisons are odorous.

Identification

N identification, recognition, diagnosis, match, apperception, assimilation, dereplication, classification, memory, interpretation, cognizance (knowledge).