identity

• "you can lose your identity when you join the army"

Synonyms

• personal identitythe distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
• individualitythe quality of being individual; the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

• "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"

Synonyms

• identity elementan operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
• identity operatoran operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

• "they shared an identity of interests"

Synonyms

• identicalnessexact sameness
• indistinguishabilityexact sameness