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identity
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identity
n.
individuality, personality, qualities which identify a person or thing; sameness; likeness, similarity
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Identity
Identity may refer to:
Philosophical topics
- Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
- Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
- Personal identity, the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time
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identity
Noun
1. the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
(synonym) personal identity, individuality
(hypernym) personality
(hyponym) gender identity
(derivation) identify, place
2. 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"
(hypernym) recognition, identification
(derivation) name, identify
3. an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
(synonym) identity element, identity operator
(hypernym) operator
4. exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
(synonym) identicalness, indistinguishability
(hypernym) sameness
(hyponym) oneness, unity
(derivation) identify
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identity
n.
identita
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identity
Rzecz.
tożsamość
