identity (redirected from identities)

i·den·ti·ty  (-dnt-t)

n. pl. i·den·ti·ties

1. The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known: "If the broadcast group is the financial guts of the company, the news division is its public identity" (Bill Powell).

2. The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.

3. The quality or condition of being the same as something else.

4. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.

5. Information, such as an identification number, used to establish or prove a person's individuality, as in providing access to a credit account.

6. Mathematics

a. An equation that is satisfied by any number that replaces the letter for which the equation is defined.

b. Identity element.

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[French identité, from Old French identite, from Late Latin identits, from Latin idem, the same (influenced by Late Latin essentits, being, and identidem, repeatedly), from id, it; see i- in Indo-European roots.]

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identity

Noun

pl -ties

1. the state of being a specified person or thing: the identity of his murderers was not immediately established

2. the individual characteristics by which a person or thing is recognized

3. the state of being the same

4. Maths Also called: (identity element) a member of a set that when combined with any other member of the set, leaves it unchanged: the identity for multiplication of numbers is 1 [Latin idem the same]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	identity - the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army" personal identity, individuality personality - the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" gender identity - your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence identification - the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) personhood - being a person; "finding her own personhood as a campus activist"
	2.	identity - 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" recognition, identification - the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "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"
	3.	identity - an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1" identity element, identity operator operator - (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation
	4.	identity - exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests" identicalness, indistinguishability sameness - the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together" oneness, unity - the quality of being united into one selfsameness - the quality of being identical with itself

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identity

noun individuality, self, character, personality, existence, distinction, originality, peculiarity, uniqueness, oneness, singularity, separateness, distinctiveness, selfhood, particularity

Translations

identity [aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ] n → identidad f

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identity [aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ] n → identité f

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identity [aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ] n → Identität f

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identity [aɪˈdɛntɪtɪ] n → identità f inv

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identity

n identity [aiˈdentəti]

who or what a person is The police are still uncertain of the murderer's identity. identiteit هَويَّه، شَخْصِيَّه идентичност totožnost identitet die Identität ταυτότητα identidad isikukuuluvus هویت henkilöllisyys identité זֶהוּת पहचान identitet személyazonosság identitas það að vera tiltekinn maður identità 身元 신원 asmenybė identitāte identiti identiteit identitet tożsamość identidade identitate личность totožnosť identiteta identitet identitet ความเหมือนกัน kimlik, hüviyet 身份 особа شناخت nhân dạng 身份

iˈdentity card

a card with a person's name (often also with a photograph) which is carried to show or prove who he/she is. identiteitsdokument بِطاقَة هويَّه карта за самоличност průkaz totožnosti identitetskort der Personalausweis δελτίο ταυτότητας Documento Nacional de Identidad (DNI) isikutunnistus کارت شناسایی henkilötodistus carte d'identité תְעוּדַת זֶהוּת परिचय पत्र osobna iskaznica azonosító/azonossági kártya kartu identitas, kartu tanda penduduk nafnskírteini; skilríki carta d'identità 身分証明書 신분 증명서 asmens liudijimas personas apliecība kad pengenalan identiteitskaart identitets-/legimitasjonskort dowód tożsamości bilhete de identidade carte de identitate удостоверение личности preukaz totožnosti osebna izkaznica lična karta identitetskort, legitimation บัตรประชาชน kimlik kartı, hüviyet cüzdanı 身份證 посвідка особи شناخت کارڈ thẻ căn cước 身份证