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/aɪdˈɛntəti/ /aɪdˈɛntɪti/ /aɪdˈɛnɪti/ /aɪdˈɛnəti/ Listen

noun

Identity n. (pl. identities)

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."

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.

(Math.) An identical equation.

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Etymology of 'Identity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Identity" Quotes from Famous Books

... to any recognition of his visitor as the reformer. To him Mary Randall was still Miss Masters, for he had heard nothing of the episode in John Boland's office when the electric king's private secretary revealed her true identity. His astonishment was predicated upon the fact that this stenographer, after having thwarted and flouted him, after having seemed to read the darkest secrets of his plotting mind, should now walk in upon him with all the easy ...

— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks

... the thong until I had tugged my wig off. The spirit-gum manufactured in those days must have been vastly superior to that made now, for nothing would induce my whiskers to part company with my face. Yelling out my identity, in spite of the hatter's tactlessly adhesive whiskers, I made one bolt for the open window, having successfully evaded the whirling crop every time, but it was a lamentably tame ending to ...

— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton

... diplomatic documents. There were two drafts: one in Arabic, with the Sultan's seal; the other in French, with Bugeaud's. The drafts were not carefully compared. The limits of territory assigned to each of the parties were not made clear. One instance of the lack of identity in the two forms of the instrument will suffice. The French form declared that Abd-el-Kader acknowledged the sovereignty of France. The Sultan had never dreamed of making an admission which, in its effect on the tribes, would have cost him his throne. What he had written, ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... her presence. Something most delightful was going to happen and she must be there. She had accepted and she later told herself she did not like to refuse. She knew, instantly as she read, what was the identity of this delightful thing that was to happen and she decided, with a sharp turn within her of some emotion, that certainly she would be there. To whet her scorn! She was thereafter much aggravated that her ...

— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson

... of the Sun into Taurus, as indicated in the unceremonious intrusion of Phebus into Venus' chamber; which, as though to confirm its identity with Taurus, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 • Various

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