identity

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity (Freq. 12)
- you can lose your identity when you join the army
• Syn:
personal identity, individuality
• Derivationally related forms:
identify
• Hypernyms:
personality
• Hyponyms:
gender identity, identification, personhood
2. the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known (Freq. 6)
- 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
• Derivationally related forms:
identify
• Hypernyms:
recognition, identification
3. an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates (Freq. 2)
- the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
• Syn:
identity element, identity operator
• Hypernyms:
operator
4. exact sameness (Freq. 2)
- they shared an identity of interests
• Syn:
identicalness, indistinguishability
• Derivationally related forms:
indistinguishable (for: indistinguishability), identical (for: identicalness), identical, identify
• Hypernyms:
sameness
• Hyponyms:
oneness, unity, selfsameness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  identicalness, indistinguishability, identity element, identity operator, personal identity, individuality