Identity
[aɪ'dentɪtɪ] or [aɪ'dɛntəti]
Definition
(noun.) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; 'you can lose your identity when you join the army'.
(noun.) exact sameness; 'they shared an identity of interests'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; 'the identity under numerical multiplication is 1'.
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.
(n.) The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.
(n.) An identical equation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sameness.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Oneness, unity, sameness, personality, individuality, convertibility
ANT:Difference, distinctness, separateness, plurality, contrariety
SYN:Unite, integrate, recognize, verify, incorporate
ANT:Divide, disunite, confound, confuse, overlook, mistake
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Definition
n. state of being the same: sameness.—adj. Iden′tical the very same: not different.—adv. Iden′tically.—n. Iden′ticalness identity.
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Examples
- At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Well, at least I have got their identity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- From this relation of impressions, and identity of ideas, the passion arises, according to my hypothesis. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- These three relations are identity, the situations in time and place, and causation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This essential identity of mind means the essential equality of all and the possibility of bringing them all to the same level. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was some time before they could establish their identity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is she kept in the neighbourhood to assert her own identity, and to stand the test of further proceedings? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- An infant becomes a man-, and is sometimes fat, sometimes lean, without any change in his identity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His back was towards me, but there could not be a moment's question about identity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I said nothing: I was afraid of occasioning some shock by declaring my identity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I began to lose the identity of the sleeper resting on me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He thought later--in 1748--that there were many points of similarity between lightning and the spark from a Leyden jar, and suggested an experiment to test the identity of their natures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Well, my dear sir, knowing the vindictive character of his old associates, he was trying to hide his own identity from everybody as long as he could. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It seemed to him that aqueous vapor always exists as a distinct fluid maintaining its identity among the other fluids of the atmosp here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That conception involved nothing less than the complete transformation of two separate identities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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