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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle French identité, from Latin idem (“the same”). See identical and idem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
identity (countable and uncountable, plural identities)
- Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
- 1997, Hydrothermal Vent Fauna, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:
- […] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]
- 1997, Hydrothermal Vent Fauna, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:
- The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
- This nation has a strong identity.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought):
- A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- This criminal has taken on several identities.
- (mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
- (algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- (algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A well-known or famous person.
- 1887 July 19, "Drowned at Williamstown", The Age (Melbourne)
- The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…
- 2013 April 4, "Cricket identities consult lawyers", New Zealand Herald
- 2016 January 13, "Kings Cross identities arrested in connection with murder", The Sydney Morning Herald
- 1887 July 19, "Drowned at Williamstown", The Age (Melbourne)
Synonyms[edit]
- (sameness): See also Thesaurus:sameness
- (difference that marks off an individual): individuality, selfhood; see also Thesaurus:selfhood
- (mathematical function): identity function
- (famous person): celebrity, personality
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Terms etymologically related to "identity"
Translations[edit]
the difference or character that marks off an individual or group from the rest
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name or persona
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A mathematical equation that holds true irrespective of input elements.
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algebra: function — see identity function
algebra: element — see identity element
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References[edit]
- identity at OneLook Dictionary Search
- identity in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- identity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- identity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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