identification

1. 1.

   the act of designating or identifying something

   Synonymsdesignation

   Broaderdetermination

   Narrowerdiagnosis
2. 2.

   evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing

   Broaderevidence

   Narrowerballistic identificationbiometric identificationimprintpositive identificationnegative identificationfacial profilingfingerprintlinguistic profilingprofiling
3. 3.

   the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established

   “the thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest”

   “identification of the gun was an important clue”

   Broadercondition
4. 4.

   the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

   “a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces”

   “experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer”

   Synonymsrecognition

   Broadermemory

   Narroweridentityspeaker identification
5. 5.

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

   Broaderidentity

Other forms of identification

plural

identifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about identification

What does identification mean?

identification means "the act of designating or identifying something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in identification?

identification has 6 syllables: i-den-ti-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca". In IPA it is /aɪˌdɛntəfəˈkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for identification?

Close synonyms include designation, recognition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is identification a common word?

identification is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with identification?

104 words rhyme with identification. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.