Identity

[I*den·ti*ty]

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.

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The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

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"


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.


Identity

I*den"ti*ty , n.; pl. Identities . [F. identit'82, 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.
Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves.
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. 3. (Math.) An identical equation.

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

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Usage Examples

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.

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