identity

Meaning

1. Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
2. The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
3. A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
4. An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
5. Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
6. An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
7. A well-known or famous person.

Synonyms

sameness

personality

individuality

self

character

oneness

unity

status

identicalness

identification

individual

personal identity

equality

person

🧑‍🦱

originality

indistinguishability

similarity

disposition

identity operator

selfhood

birth

authenticity

uniqueness

origin

parentage

lineage

identity element

full name

history

state

substance

trait

union

voucher

ID

🆔

indiscernibility

homoousia

community

equalness

idiosyncresy

sameness of form

sameness of nature

identically equal

identical relation

identical equation

undistinguishability

peculiarity

background

capacity

equal

equate

fairness

gentility

harmony

homogeneity

identification mark

identify

image

independence

likeness

manner

mannerism

name

oneself

particularity

passport

alikeness

position

proof

quality

rank

reality

reputation

resemblance

standing

Pronounced as (IPA)

/aɪˈdɛntɪti/

Etymology

From Middle French identité, from Latin identitās.