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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