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identity

   Your identity is what makes you "you." If you are having "an identity
   crisis," then I guess you can't figure out who you are. Good luck with
   that.

   The noun identity can also refer to a name or persona. Criminals tend
   to use false identities so they won't get caught. If you falsely
   identify someone, it is a case of "mistaken identity." The word
   identity doesn't have to be used for a single person either. People
   refer to "corporate identity" when talking about what makes a company
   unique.
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Primary Meanings of identity

   1.
   n
   the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized
   or known
   2.
   n
   exact sameness
   3.
   n
   an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
   Full Definitions of identity
   1

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”

   Type of:
          identification, recognition

          the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering

n the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

   “you can lose your identity when you join the army”

   Synonyms:
          individuality, personal identity

   Types:
          gender identity

          your identity as it is experienced with regard to your
          individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in
          infancy and is reinforced during adolescence
          identification

          the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of
          the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
          personhood

          being a person

   Type of:
          personality

          the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental,
          emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual

   2

n exact sameness

   “they shared an identity of interests”

   Synonyms:
          identicalness, indistinguishability

   Types:
          oneness, unity

          the quality of being united into one
          selfsameness

          the quality of being identical with itself

   Type of:
          sameness

          the quality of being alike

   3

n an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

   “the identity under numerical multiplication is 1”

   Synonyms:
          identity element, identity operator

   Type of:
          operator

          (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical
          operation

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