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English Dictionary: Identity	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
identity n the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army" Synonym(s): identity, personal identity, individuality 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" an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1" Synonym(s): identity, identity element, identity operator exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests" Synonym(s): identity, identicalness, indistinguishability
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Identity \Iden"tity\, n.; pl. {Identities}. [F. identit[82], LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. {Item}.] 1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods. 3. (Math.) An identical equation.