- identity, personal identity, individuality - the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
--1 is a kind of personality
--1 has particulars: gender identity; identification; personhoodDerived form: verb identify1 - identity - 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"
--2 is a kind of recognition, identification
Derived forms: verb identify2, verb identify5, verb identify1 - identity, identity element, identity operator - an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
--3 is a kind of operator
- identity, identicalness, indistinguishability - exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
--4 is a kind of sameness
--4 has particulars: oneness, unity; selfsamenessDerived forms: verb identify3, verb identify6