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identity
noun
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 8
- Starts with
- I
- Ends with
- Y
- Contains
- DENTIT
- Scrabble score
- 12
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
aɪˈdɛntəti
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Meaning
Definitions
noun
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
“you can lose your identity when you join the army”
noun
exact sameness
“they shared an identity of interests”
noun
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”
noun
an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
“the identity under numerical multiplication is 1”
In context
Example Sentences
you can lose your identity when you join the army
they shared an identity of interests
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
the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
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