identity
noun
[ ʌɪˈdɛntɪti ]
• the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
• "he knows the identity of the bombers"
Similar:
name,
specification,
identification,
recognition,
naming,
singling out,
picking out,
pinpointing,
placing,
discerning,
distinguishing,
fingering,
• a close similarity or affinity.
• "an identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community"
Similar:
identicalness,
sameness,
selfsameness,
oneness,
congruity,
congruence,
indistinguishability,
interchangeability,
likeness,
alikeness,
uniformity,
similarity,
closeness,
accordance,
alignment,
parallelism,
symmetry,
• a transformation that leaves an object unchanged.
• the equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. ( x + 1)2 = x 2 + 2 x + 1.
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘quality of being identical’): from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem ‘same’.
