Deidentify

Quick meaning: Deidentify is a verb meaning To cease or forgo identifying (with).

Meaning

To cease or forgo identifying (with).

More Meanings

1. To remove personal identifying information (PII) from data, sometimes preserving the original identification data separately; to anonymize data (though it may be possible to reidentify via data aggregation and correlation).

Example Sentences

Conversely, there is a tendency to deidentify with low-status social groups, but only when group boundaries are permeable […]

Second-boms are significantly more likely to deidentify with firstborns than with third-boms although they resemble both in age,[…]

[…] will be perceived by others in terms of the imputed qualities of the role, thus making it more difficult for the person to deidentify with that role.

Differentiation in families requires that siblings be able to identify with some characteristics of their brothers and sisters, and to deidentify with others.

Word Forms

• deidentifies
• deidentifying
• deidentified
• de-identify

Antonyms for deidentify

Common opposites include identify, reidentify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deanonymize, depersonalize, anonymize, deanonymise, anonymise, depersonalise.

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