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Identity   /aɪdˈɛntəti/  /aɪdˈɛntɪti/  /aɪdˈɛnɪti/  /aɪdˈɛnəti/   Listen
Identity

noun
(pl. identities)
1.
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity.  Synonyms: individuality, personal identity.
2.
The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known.  "It was too dark to determine his identity" , "She guessed the identity of his lover"
3.
An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates.  Synonyms: identity element, identity operator.
4.
Exact sameness.  Synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability.



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"Identity" Quotes from Famous Books



... was held at the College of Pharmacy, and resolutions were adopted, declaring the character of General Bratish to be "unimpeached and unimpeachable" his authority from Greece to be fully proved, and his identity to have been established by the testimony of "several highly respectable gentlemen present"; that, before he could have another trial, the court was abolished; and that, after waiting two months for the prosecutor to move, for want of something better to do, General ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 • Various

... have reflected. This young man must die, but his identity must be perfectly clear. We require Gudel's testimony, and then, when all this is ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina

... foundation for his success. Mr. Walmsley, one of his early friends, recommended him, and his fellow-adventurer, Garrick, to the notice and protection of Colson, the mathematician. Unless Mrs. Piozzi is correct, in rescuing the character of Colson from any identity with that of Gelidus, in the Rambler[a], Johnson entertained no lively recollection of his first patron's kindness. He was ever warm in expressions of gratitude for favours, conferred on him in his season of want and ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson

... low a word. And I can assure you that it is no little help, in the 'beau monde', to be puffed there by a fashionable woman. I send you the inclosed billet to carry her, only as a certificate of the identity of your person, which I take it for granted she could not ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... inherited bigotries and prejudices, that tear and cripple a young man as they are taken from him one by one. He creeps out of them as a crab from the shell that has grown too small for him, but he thinks he has left his identity behind him. ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 • Various


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