identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɛntɪti/
ipa: /aɪˈdɛn(t)ɪti/
ipa: /aɪˈdɛn(t)əti/
ipa: [aɪˈdɛnɪɾi]
ipa: [aɪˈdɛnəɾi]
ipa: /ɑɪˈdentəti/
Forms: form: identities
Etymology: From Middle French identité, from Latin identitās.
Senses: examples: text: […] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]
ref: 1997, “Hydrothermal Vent Fauna”, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:
synonyms: word: identicalness
word: identity
word: sameliness
word: sameness
word: uniformity
coordinate_terms: equivalence
;
similarity
glosses: Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
examples: text: I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
text: This nation has a strong identity.
text: On the other hand, ME /ɛu/ preserved its identity into the early Modern English period, and the early writers on orthography and pronunciation normally distinguish between lME /iu/ and lME /ɛu/, the latter of which occurs in words with eME /ɛː/ like dew (OE dēaw), few (OE fēawe), hew (OE hēawan), sew (eME ē < ĕ, OE seowian), shrew (OE scrēawa), etc.
ref: 2021 July 28, Fausto Cercignani, “On the alleged existence of a vowel /yː/ in early Modern English”, in English Language and Linguistics, volume 26, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 2:
synonyms: word: individuality
word: beinghood
word: identity
word: individuality
word: ipseity
word: personality
word: personhood
word: personness
word: selfdom
word: selfhood
word: selfness
word: selfship
glosses: 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.
examples: text: This criminal has taken on several identities.
text: In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
glosses: A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
examples: text: The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x²−y² is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: identity function
glosses: An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
topics: algebra
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
examples: text: Zero is the identity for the addition of real numbers.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
examples: text: The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…
ref: 1887 July 19, “Drowned at Williamstown”, in The Age, Melbourne:
ref: 2013 April 4, “Cricket identities consult lawyers”, in New Zealand Herald:
ref: 2016 January 13, “Kings Cross identities arrested in connection with murder”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
synonyms: celebrity
personality
glosses: A well-known or famous person.
Hyponyms: additive identity
gender identity
left identity
mistaken identity
multiplicative identity
personal identity
principal identity
quasiidentity
right identity
sexual identity
superidentity
Derived terms: Abel-Jacobi-Liouville identity
Abel's identity
age identity
amputee identity disorder
Bézout's identity
bioidentity
body integrity identity disorder
Capelli's identity
coidentity
cultural identity
cyberidentity
de Moivre's identity
dissociative identity disorder
e-identity
Euler's identity
gender identity disorder
gender identity syndrome
identicard
identicide
identicon
identitarian
identity broker
identity card
identity crisis
identity death
identity document
identity functor
identityless
identity matrix
identity morphism
identity of indiscernibles
identity parade
identity police
identity policing
identity politician
identity politics
identity property
identity provider
identity restoration
identity theft
Jacobi identity
law of identity
misidentity
nonidentity
Pythagorean trigonometric identity
self-identity
standard of identity
steal someone's identity
subidentity
transidentity
trig identity
trigonometric identity
Weinstein-Aronszajn identity
Related terms: identic
identical
identification
identify