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identity
[ ahy-den-ti-tee, ih-den- ]
noun
- 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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- noni·denti·ty noun
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Origin of identity1
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Example Sentences
But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.
They are not the actual traffickers, Yazbek says, so generally the other refugees protect their identity.
But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.
Identity issues seem to have dogged Otis since his troubles began.
In a remote location with little means for economic development, the Brogpas have cultivating this identity to their advantage.
Now the Waterford and Limerick were to lose, not only the Ennis line, but all their lines and their own identity as well.
There is a perfect identity of principle, both working to the same good end, between the existing corn-law and the new tariff.
But in all probability, the messenger knew less about the identity of the Eye than Black Hood knew.
Some are constantly being added, others are removed from her communion on earth, but her characteristic absolute identity remains.
At least he understood how Jack Carlson had died, even if the mystery of the identity of the Eye had deepened.
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