| 1. identity [ Synonyms: individuality, personal identity] | |
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The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
"you can lose your identity when you join the army";
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| 2. identity | |
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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";
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| 3. identity [ Synonyms: identity element, identity operator] | |
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An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
"the identity under numerical multiplication is 1";
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| 4. identity [ Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability] | |
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Exact sameness
"they shared an identity of interests";
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