personal identity

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personal identity - the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"

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"

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