identity
Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɛntɪti/
The English word “identity” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
- The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
- A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
- Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
- A well-known or famous person.
Etymology
From Middle English ydemptite, from Middle French identité and its etymon Late Latin idemptitās, identitās, from idem (“the same”) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns) as a calque of Ancient Greek ταὐτότης (tautótēs, “sameness”).
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