Word.ws English Dictionary

overidentifies

overidentifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overidentify.

Meaning of overidentify

Verb

overidentify (third-person singular simple present overidentifies, present participle overidentifying, simple past and past participle overidentified)

  1. (intransitive) To identify too much (with another person or thing).
    • The patient's gender issues stemmed from his overidentifying with his mother.
    Antonyms:
    underidentify

Questions about overidentifies

What is overidentifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overidentifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overidentify.

Words near overidentifies in the dictionary

  1. overidealized
  2. overidealizes
  3. overidealizing
  4. overidentification
  5. overidentified
  6. overidentifies
  7. overidentify
  8. overidentifying
  9. overideologization
  10. overidle
  11. Overijssel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overidentifies (page history and authors); overidentify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overidentifies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overidentifies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.