How to say "identification" in Japanese

• 指摘してきJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbEssentially means pointing out a fault, error, or problem; its 'identification' sense is marginal. For identification in any ordinary sense this is seldom the word you want.
  印刷いんさつミスはすぐに指摘してきされなければならない。↗

  Mistakes in the printing should be pointed out at once.
• 確認かくにんJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers identification as confirming or verifying — checking that facts are correct or that someone is who they claim to be. Its core meaning is confirmation rather than identification itself.
  予約よやくは確認かくにんされています。↗

  I have a confirmed reservation.
• 同定どうていCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbIdentification in the sense of establishing that something is the same as something else, such as the identification of a suspect; this is the precise word for that matching sense.
• 共感きょうかんJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers identification with someone — feeling empathy for a person or character. Beyond that emotional sense it just means sympathy, so it is not the word for identification in other senses.
  あなたの考え方かんがえかたには共感きょうかんできます。↗

  I really agree with what you're saying.
• 識別しきべつCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbIdentification as telling things apart — distinguishing which of similar things is which. Think of it alongside distinction and discernment rather than as establishing someone's identity.
  私の目めは色いろが識別しきべつしにくくなってきた。↗

  My eyes have become less appreciative of colors.

Use 同定 for establishing something is the same as a known thing, 識別 for telling things apart, 確認 for confirming or verifying, 共感 only for identifying emotionally with someone; 指摘 means pointing out and is rarely the right choice.

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• 指摘してきpointing out
• 確認かくにんconfirmation
• 同定どうていidentifying (something as being the same as something else)
• 共感きょうかんsympathy
• 識別しきべつdistinction
• ＩＤアイ・ディーidentification
• アイデンティフィケーションidentification
• 身元確認みもとかくにんidentification
• 標旗ひょうきidentification
• 同一化どういつかidentification (with)
• 身分証明みぶんしょうめいidentification
• 比定ひていhypothesis (formed by comparison with other similar objects)
• 首実検くびじっけんchecking someone's identity
• 判読はんどくdecipherment
• 同一視どういつしviewing and treating as one
• 一体感いったいかん(feeling of) identification
• 帰属意識きぞくいしき(a feeling of) identification (with)
• 面割りめんわり(criminal) identification (by witnesses)
• 鑑識かんしきforensics