Synonyms: personal identity, individuality, identity
Definition: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
Usage: you can lose your identity when you join the army
Similar words: personality
Definition: the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
Usage: their different reactions reflected their very different personalities; it is his nature to help others
Synonyms: indistinguishability, identicalness, identity
Definition: exact sameness
Usage: they shared an identity of interests
Similar words: sameness
Definition: the quality of being alike
Usage: sameness of purpose kept them together
Synonyms: identity
Definition: the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
Usage: 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
Similar words: recognition, identification
Definition: the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
Usage: a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces; experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer
Synonyms: identity, identity element, identity operator
Definition: an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
Usage: the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
Similar words: operator
Definition: (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation