Definitions for identity
Overview of noun identity
The noun identity has 4 senses? (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (12) 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")
2. (6) 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")
3. (2) identity, identity element, identity operator
(an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1")
4. (2) identity, identicalness, indistinguishability
(exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests")
