identification — ODE

identification /ʌɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃn

▸ noun

1 [mass noun] the action or process of identifying someone or something or the fact of being identified:

each child was tagged with a number for identification

[count noun] it may be impossible for relatives to make positive identifications.

▪ a means of proving a person's identity, especially in the form of official papers:

do you have any identification?.

2 a person's sense of identity with someone or something:

children's identification with story characters.

3 the association or linking of one thing with another:

the lesser value attributed to humility is often due to the mistaken identification of humility with lowness.

– ORIGIN mid 17th century: originally from medieval Latin identificat- ‘identified’, from the verb identificare; later from identify.