Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, from mis- (1) + identification.
Wiktionary
n. An instance of misidentifying; an erroneous identification.
Usage examples of "misidentification".
There would be a curious symmetry to such an error, a symmetry of misidentification, especially if we believe that Andreas Eliades was behind the action or somehow involved in it.
Even among the SEALS, with Mac alone out on the deck somewhere, and Roselli and Murdock moving to help him, misidentification was a terribly real possibility.
Our ten-county review suggests a minimum 15-percent misidentification rate.
That meant this whole expedition had not been a wild goose chase, the result of misidentification of the nebula.
It was a most unfortunate misidentification, which has given rise to much confusion.
Some, they admit, must have been genuine misidentifications of aircraft or natural phenomena seen under unusual circumstances.
I do not propose any reform so drastic as to restore their original names to the western rivers of the Peninsula, but content myself, after years of research, with distinguishing the original, or right, or de lure names from the de facto names, the product of pardonable misidentifications sanctioned, in many cases, by half a century of popular and official usage.
Our evidence speaks simply to the fact that such misidentifications do exist.
They'd come full circle, back to a scruffy group of nitwits and a comedy of misidentification and miscommunication.