identity

1. (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity: "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
Synonyms: individuality
Related Words: identification, personality, personhood

2. (noun) exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability
Related Words: oneness, sameness, selfsameness, unity

3. (noun) collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is recognizable or known
Related Words: identification, recognition

4. (noun) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
Synonyms: identity element, identity operator
Related Words: operator



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