Misidentify vs Misrecognize - What's the difference?

Misrecognize is a related term of misidentify.

is that misidentify is to mistake the identity while misrecognize is to recognize in error.

To mistake the identity.

*misrecognise

(misrecogniz)

(psychology, computing) To recognize in error

*{{quote-book, 2006, Mary Klages, Literary Theory citation

, passage=This process of misrecognizing one's self in the image in the mirror creates the ego, the entity that says 'I.'}}

(sociology) To deliberately fail to recognize, or pretend to do so

*{{quote-book, 2007, Carolyn L. Hsu, Creating Market Socialism citation

, passage=When people did participate in blat practice, they misrecognized their actions through narratives of friendship (Ledeneva 2003:12).}}

*misrecognition