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Identity

Identity Meaning & Definition
Identity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Identity?

[n] the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
[n] exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
[n] 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"
[n] an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Identity: identicalness | identity element | identity operator | indistinguishability | individuality | personal identity

Related Terms | Find terms related to Identity: accord | accordance | affinity | agape | agreement | alikeness | alliance | amity | analogy | aping | approach | approximation | assimilation | balance | bonds of harmony | brotherly love | caritas | cement of friendship | charity | closeness | coequality | coextension | combination | communion | community | community of interests | comparability | comparison | compatibility | concord | concordance | conformity | congeniality | congruence | copying | correspondence | credo | creed | differentiation | differentness | distinctiveness | egohood | empathy | equality | equation | equilibrium | equipoise | equipollence | equiponderance | equity | equivalence | equivalency | esprit | esprit de corps | evenness | feeling of identity | fellow feeling | fellowship | frictionlessness | fusion | good vibes | good vibrations | happy family | harmony | human factor | ideology | imitation | indistinguishability | individualism | individuality | indivisibility | intactness | integrality | integration | integrity | inviolability | irreducibility | justice | kinship | levelness | like-mindedness | likeness | likening | love | metaphor | mimicking | mutuality | nearness | nominalism | nonconformity | oneness | organic unity | outlook | par | parallelism | parity | particularism | particularity | peace | personal equation | personal identity | personality | personship | philosophy | poise | proportion | purity | rapport | rapprochement | reciprocity | resemblance | sameness | selfhood | self-identity | selfness | selfsameness | semblance | sharing | similarity | simile | similitude | simplicity | simulation | singleness | singularity | solidarity | solidification | solidity | soul | symmetry | sympathy | symphony | team spirit | unanimity | understanding | undividedness | unification | uniformity | union | uniqueness | unison | unity | univocity | view | weltanschauung | wholeness

See Also | gender identity | identification | identification | oneness | operator | personality | personhood | recognition | sameness | selfsameness | unity

Identity In Webster's Dictionary

\I*den"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Identities}. [F. identit['e], LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. {Item}.] 1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods. 3. (Math.) An identical equation.

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