[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

identification \iden`tifica"tion\, n. cf. f.
   identification.
   the act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the
   state of being identified.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

identification
     n 1: the act of designating or identifying something syn: designation
     2: attribution to yourself consciously or unconsciously of
        the characteristics of another person or group of
        persons
     3: evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or
        thing
     4: the condition of having your identity established; "the
        thief's identification was followed quickly by his arrest"
     5: 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" syn: recognition
see also:
designation recognition 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

156 moby thesaurus words for "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

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