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identity
noun
1 identity
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity:
— You can lose your identity when you join the army.
synonyms: individuality, personal identity.
Roget 27:
equality,
parity,
coextension†,
symmetry,
balance,
poise;
evenness,
monotony,
level.
equivalence;
equipollence†,
equipoise,
equilibrium,
equiponderance†;
par,
quits,
a wash;
not a pin to choose;
distinction without a difference,
six of one and half a dozen of the other;
tweedle dee and tweedle dum [Lat.];
identity
etc.
13;
similarity
etc.
17.
equalization,
equation;
equilibration,
co-ordination,
adjustment,
readjustment.
drawn game,
drawn battle;
neck and neck race;
tie,
draw,
standoff,
dead heat.
match,
peer,
compeer,
equal,
mate,
fellow,
brother;
equivalent.
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Roget 13:
identity,
sameness;
coincidence,
coalescence;
convertibility;
equality
etc.
27;
selfness†,
self,
oneself;
identification.
monotony,
tautology
etc.
(repetition)
104.
facsimile
etc.
(copy)
21;
homoousia: alter ego
etc.
(similar)
17;
ipsissima verba [Lat.]
etc.
(exactness)
494;
same;
self,
very,
one and the same;
very thing,
actual thing;
real McCoy;
no other;
one and only;
in the flesh.
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Dutch: identiteit
2 identity
The individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known.
Dutch: identiteiten, persoonlijkheid, identiteit
3 identity
An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates:
— The identity under numerical multiplication is 1.
synonyms: identity element, identity operator.
Dutch: identiteit
Polish: równość, tożsamość, identyczność
4 identity
Exact sameness:
— They shared an identity of interests.
synonyms: identicalness, indistinguishability.
Dutch: ononderscheidbaarheid
Polish: jednakowość, tożsamość, identyczność
Moby thesaurus: accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, balance, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, closeness, coequality, coextension, combination, communion, community, community of interests, comparability, comparison, compatibility, concord, concordance, conformity, congeniality, congruence, copying, correspondence, credo, creed, differentiation, differentness, distinctiveness, egohood, empathy, equality, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, esprit, esprit de corps, evenness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, fusion, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, human factor, ideology, imitation, indistinguishability, individualism, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, justice, kinship, levelness, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, love, metaphor, mimicking, mutuality, nearness, nominalism, nonconformity, oneness, organic unity, outlook, par, parallelism, parity, particularism, particularity, peace, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, philosophy, poise, proportion, purity, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, resemblance, sameness, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simplicity, simulation, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity, soul, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, unanimity, understanding, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unison, unity, univocity, view, weltanschauung, wholeness ... show more.
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