identity

Noun
  1. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity (synset 104625427)
    "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
    is a type of: personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
    subtypes:
    • gender identity - your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence
    • identification - the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
    • personhood - being a person
    same as: individuality, personal identity
  2. The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known (synset 105771409)
    "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"
    is a type of: identification, recognition - the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
  3. An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates (synset 113808960)
    "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
    is a type of: operator - (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
    same as: identity element, identity operator
  4. Exact sameness (synset 104750264)
    "they shared an identity of interests"
    is a type of: sameness - the quality of being alike
    subtypes:
    same as: identicalness, indistinguishability

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