identity.

1. The qualities, roles, or features through which someone or something is recognized as itself.

2. Exact sameness between things rather than mere resemblance.

3. An equality that holds for every permitted value of its variables.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• personal identity
• cultural identity

On the page

Moving abroad changed her sense of identity.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Countable or uncountable by context; countable singular identity; plural identities. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.