Synonyms:
identity, personal_identity, individuality
Meaning: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
Synonyms:
identity
Meaning: the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "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"
Synonyms:
identity, identity_element, identity_operator
Meaning: an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
Synonyms:
identity, identicalness, indistinguishability
Meaning: exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
Usage examples
Identity and Difference.
Which shows wherein Personal identity consists.
Difference between Identity of Man and of Person.
"You have no lingering doubts as to the identity and utter unworthiness of the man?"
There was not the slightest chance that they would be able to make their identity known.
A most unselfish little creature she was, but one who had a well-formed idea of her own identity.
What, in Dr. Barton's opinion, could have influenced the framers of the life of Jesus to suppress their identity?
A moment's conference with him was sufficient to convince Lapierre that there could be no question of mistaken identity.
So that self is not determined by identity or diversity of substance, which it cannot be sure of, but only by identity of consciousness.
Let us follow these two portions of Louis XII.'s reign, each separately, without mixing up one with the other by reason of identity of dates.