'Identity' definitions:
Definition of 'identity'
From: WordNet
noun
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army" [syn: identity, personal identity, individuality]
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" [syn: identity, identity element, identity operator]
noun
Exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests" [syn: identity, identicalness, indistinguishability]
Definition of 'Identity'
From: GCIDE
- Identity \I*den"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Identities. [F. identit['e], LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. Item.]
- 1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. [1913 Webster]
- Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Math.) An identical equation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'identity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agape,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- amity,
- analogy,
- aping,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balance,
- bonds of harmony,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cement of friendship,
- charity,
- closeness,
- coequality,
- coextension,
- combination,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- compatibility,
- concord,
- concordance,
- conformity,
- congeniality,
- congruence,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- credo,
- creed,
- differentiation,
- differentness,
- distinctiveness,
- egohood,
- empathy,
- equality,
- equation,
- equilibrium,
- equipoise,
- equipollence,
- equiponderance,
- equity,
- equivalence,
- equivalency,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- evenness,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- frictionlessness,
- fusion,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- human factor,
- ideology,
- imitation,
- indistinguishability,
- individualism,
- individuality,
- indivisibility,
- intactness,
- integrality,
- integration,
- integrity,
- inviolability,
- irreducibility,
- justice,
- kinship,
- levelness,
- like-mindedness,
- likeness,
- likening,
- love,
- metaphor,
- mimicking,
- mutuality,
- nearness,
- nominalism,
- nonconformity,
- oneness,
- organic unity,
- outlook,
- par,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- particularism,
- particularity,
- peace,
- personal equation,
- personal identity,
- personality,
- personship,
- philosophy,
- poise,
- proportion,
- purity,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- reciprocity,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- self-identity,
- selfhood,
- selfness,
- selfsameness,
- semblance,
- sharing,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simplicity,
- simulation,
- singleness,
- singularity,
- solidarity,
- solidification,
- solidity,
- soul,
- symmetry,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- team spirit,
- unanimity,
- understanding,
- undividedness,
- unification,
- uniformity,
- union,
- uniqueness,
- unison,
- unity,
- univocity,
- view,
- weltanschauung,
- wholeness