identification

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of identifying.
• noun The state of being identified.
• noun Proof or evidence of identity.
• noun Psychology A person's association with or assumption of the qualities, characteristics, or views of another person or group.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of making or proving to be the same; the state of being made or regarded as the same.
• noun The act or process of establishing the identity of something; the act or process of determining what a given thing is, or who a given person is; specifically, in natural history, the determining of the species to which a given specimen belongs; also, the determination thus made.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
• noun The state of being identified.
• noun A particular instance of identifying something.
• noun A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
• noun A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
• noun evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
• noun the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
• noun the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
• noun the act of designating or identifying something