identifyee

noun

identifyee

noun

Etymology From identify + -ee.

1

A person or thing that is being identified.

  • In this form of examination the member merely places the number of the "identifyee" in front of the name on his paper.1934, Harry Charles McKown, Home Room Guidance:
  • Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?1989, Frank Kuppner, A Very Quiet Street, page 72:

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