identity
/aɪdˈɛntɪti/
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Definitions
Noun
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
Noun
the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"; "it was too dark to determine his identity"; "she guessed the identity of his lover"
Noun
an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
Noun
exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
Synonyms
identicalness
identity element
identity operator
indistinguishability
individuality
personal identity