identity verification

Questions about identity verification

What does identity verification mean?

identity verification means "the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics".

What is another word for identity verification?

Close synonyms include biometric identification, biometric authentication. 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 identity verification a common word?

identity verification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.