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English noun: identity | |||
| 1. | identity (attribute) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | ||
| Samples | You can lose your identity when you join the army. | ||
| Synonyms | individuality, personal identity | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | personality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | gender identity, identification, personhood | ||
| 2. | identity (cognition) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | identification, recognition | ||
| 3. | identity an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | ||
| Samples | The identity under numerical multiplication is 1. | ||
| Synonyms | identity element, identity operator | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | operator | ||
| 4. | identity (attribute) exact sameness | ||
| Samples | They shared an identity of interests. | ||
| Synonyms | identicalness, indistinguishability | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | sameness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | oneness, selfsameness, unity | ||
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