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English to English noun
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the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity |  | Example: you can lose your identity when you join the army
source: wordnet30
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the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | | Example: the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
source: wordnet30
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exact sameness | | Example: they shared an identity of interests
source: wordnet30
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The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. | | source: webster1913
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