mistaken identities
Cases of misrecognition
Mistaken identities is the plural of mistaken identity—a situation where someone is wrongly believed to be someone else.
The phrase appears in legal contexts when the wrong person is accused of a crime, and in comedy where confusion about who's who drives the plot: The film is a farce built on mistaken identities.
- wrong personIncorrectly identified individual
- impersonationPretending to be another
- misrecognitionIncorrectly identifying something
- doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
- twinningForming identical pairs
masquerade · double · lookalike · exoneration · false positive · impostor · mix-up · false accusation · farce · deception · comedy of errors · plot twists · dramatic irony · cross-dressing · role reversal · wrongful arrest · disguise · misunderstanding
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