Definitions for identity

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identity i·den·ti·ty

Spelling: [ahy-den-ti-tee, ih-den-]

IPA: /aɪˈdɛn tɪ ti, ɪˈdɛn-/

Identity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in identity (deiintty).

Definitions for identity

noun

1. the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions:
2. the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another:
3. condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing:
4. the state or fact of being the same one as described.
5. the sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time and sometimes disturbed in mental illnesses, as schizophrenia.
6. exact likeness in nature or qualities:
7. an instance or point of sameness or likeness:
8. Logic. an assertion that two terms refer to the same thing.
9. Mathematics. an equation that is valid for all values of its variables. Also called identity element, unit element, unity. an element in a set such that the element operating on any other element of the set leaves the second element unchanged. the property of a function or map such that each element is mapped into itself. the function or map itself.
10. Australian Informal. an interesting, famous, or eccentric resident, usually of long standing in a community.

Origin of identity

1560-70; Late Latin identitās, equivalent to Latin ident(idem) repeatedly, again and again, earlier *idem et idem (idem neuter of īdem the same + et and) + -itās -ity

Examples for identity

A point of seeming difference between them establishes their identity.

In a remote location with little means for economic development, the Brogpas have cultivating this identity to their advantage.

identity issues seem to have dogged Otis since his troubles began.

The trout-fly settled all doubts in my mind as to his origin and his identity.

We see that the puzzle about identity proves at last to be of Grecian origin.

She was like a hunted hare, dodging everyone she fancied might discover her identity.

Every facet of his identity, taken alone, seemed at war with every other part of him.

They are not the actual traffickers, Yazbek says, so generally the other refugees protect their identity.

The Professor—I had guessed his identity—joined us, glancing at me inquisitively.

But those strands of his identity are all wound around the conspiracy that led him back to Gambia for the first time in 23 years.