<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An act or instance of identifying; the state of being identified.</li><li>Synonyms: affiliation, connection, association.</li><li>Something that identifies a person, animal, or thing: He carries identification with him at all times.</li><li>Sociology: acceptance as one's own of the values and interests of a social group.</li><li>Psychology: a process by which one ascribes to oneself the qualities or characteristics of another person.</li><li>In psychoanalytic theory: the transference or reaction to one person with the feelings or responses relevant to another, as the identification of a teacher with a parent.</li><li>Perception of another as an extension of oneself.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>