identity

(n) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
- you can lose your identity when you join the army
personal identity, individuality,
(n) 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
(n) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
- the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
identity element, identity operator,
(n) exact sameness
- they shared an identity of interests
identicalness, indistinguishability,

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