adjective
- identified or classified with excessive or unnecessary detail; having more identifying characteristics than needed
- excessively associated with or defined by a particular identity, role, or characteristic
Usage: technical usage in statistics and social science research
Usage: psychology and sociology
Examples
- The statistical model was overidentified, containing more constraints than necessary to solve the problem.
- She felt overidentified with her professional role and struggled to maintain a separate personal identity.
- The research data was overidentified with demographic markers that obscured the underlying patterns.
- He worried about becoming overidentified with a single political ideology.
- The system had overidentified variables that made interpretation difficult.