Identity

Noun

 * 1) The sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal.
 * 2) The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
 * 3) A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
 * This criminal has taken on several identities
 * 1) Knowledge of who one is.
 * I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
 * This nation has a strong identity.
 * 1)  Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
 * 2)  An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.

Synonyms

 * selfhood

Derived terms

 * additive identity
 * identity card
 * identity of indiscernibles


 * identity theft
 * law of identity
 * left identity


 * mistaken identity
 * multiplicative identity
 * personal identity
 * right identity

Related terms

 * identic
 * identical


 * identification
 * identify

Thesaurus
accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, balance, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, closeness, coequality, coextension, combination, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, concord, concordance, conformity, congeniality, congruence, copying, correspondence, credo, creed, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, empathy, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps, evenness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, fusion, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, human factor, ideology, imitation, indistinguishability, individualism, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, justice, kinship, levelness, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, love, metaphor, mimicking, mutuality, nearness, nominalism, nonconformity, oneness, organic unity, outlook, par, parallelism, parity, particularism, particularity, peace, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, philosophy, poise, proportion, purity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, resemblance, sameness, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simplicity, simulation, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity, soul, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, unanimity, understanding, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, unity, univocity, view, weltanschauung, wholeness

Etymology
Learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin identitas: < idem:. See identical: and idem:.

Translations

 * Arabic: مطابقة
 * Catalan: identitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 個性, 个性, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 同一
 * Maltese:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: identitate
 * Russian: тождественность,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: identidad


 * Arabic: هوية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 同一性, 個性, 个性,, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 身元, 同一性, アイデンティティ
 * Maltese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, индивидуальность


 * Arabic: هوية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:, 素性
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: identitate
 * Russian:, личные данные


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 個性, 个性,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: индивидуальность,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 恆等式, 恒等式
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: identtinen funktio
 * Russian: тождество, тождественность


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: identiteettialkio


 * Russian: тождество, тождественность
 * Spanish: elemento neutro


 * : identitet
 * : идентитет, идентичност , самоличност
 * : identitet
 * : identiteet
 * : זהות (zehut)
 * : identitás (3), egységelem (4)


 * : 동일성 (dongilseong) (1), 신원 (sinweon)
 * : identitas, identitatis (genitive)
 * : identitet
 * : (barâbari),  (hamâni),  (šenâsâyi)
 * : identidade
 * : identita
 * : identitet
 * : identita
 * : identitet
 * : identitet