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[ noun ] the attribution to yourself of the characteristics of others

Synonyms

identification

Examples

"his identification with his father shaped his entire life"

Used in print

(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)

Henrietta 's feeling_of_identity with Sara_Sullam was crowned by her discovery of the coincidence that Sara 's epitaph in the Jewish cemetery in Venice referred to her as `` the Sulamite '' .

Related terms

empathy

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