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identity
[ ahy-den-ti-tee, ih-den- ]
noun
, plural i·den·ti·ties.
- the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions:
The identity of the fingerprints on the gun with those on file provided evidence that he was the killer.
- the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another:
He began to doubt his own identity.
- condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing:
a case of mistaken identity;
a male gender identity;
immigrants with strong ethnic identities.
- the state or fact of being the same one as described.
- the sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time and sometimes disturbed in mental illnesses, as schizophrenia.
Synonyms: uniqueness, distinctiveness, personality, individuality
- exact likeness in nature or qualities:
an identity of interests.
- an instance or point of sameness or likeness:
to mistake resemblances for identities.
- Logic. an assertion that two terms refer to the same thing.
- Mathematics.
- an equation that is valid for all values of its variables.
- Also called identity element,. an element in a set such that the element operating on any other element of the set leaves the second element unchanged.
- the property of a function or map such that each element is mapped into itself.
- the function or map itself.
- Australian Informal. an interesting, famous, or eccentric resident, usually of long standing in a community.
identity
/ aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ /
noun
- the state of having unique identifying characteristics held by no other person or thing
- the individual characteristics by which a person or thing is recognized
- Also callednumerical identity the property of being one and the same individual
his loss of memory did not affect his identity
- Also calledqualitative identity the state of being the same in nature, quality, etc
they were linked by the identity of their tastes
- the state of being the same as a person or thing described or claimed
the identity of the stolen goods has not yet been established
- identification of oneself as
moving to London destroyed his Welsh identity
- logic
- that relation that holds only between any entity and itself
- an assertion that that relation holds, as Cicero is Tully
- maths
- an equation that is valid for all values of its variables, as in ( x – y )( x + y ) = x ² – y ². Often denoted by the symbol ≡
- Also calledidentity element a member of a set that when operating on another member, x, produces that member x: the identity for multiplication of numbers is 1 since x .1 = 1. x = x See also inverse
- informal.a well-known person, esp in a specified locality; figure (esp in the phrase an old identity )
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- non·i·den·ti·ty noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of identity1
C16: from Late Latin identitās, from Latin idem the same
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