personal 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: identity, individuality

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