identity
660
3.2
- noun
- /aɪˈdɛntɪti/
:
identidad
- Nursing as a job gave the participants an identity and meaning in their lives.
- a sense of identity
- one's own identity
- personal identity
Self in regards to your identity, who am I?
- Self in regards to your identity, who am I?
- But see, we're unique, different identities, same DNA.
- Number one, they find their identity beyond space and time.
- This is where identity is being worked out.
- But being mature means negotiating your identity constantly, constantly.
- Africa must find it's identity again, it's it's pride.
- What a cancer this obsession with identity politics has created.
- In fact, if you would ask them their identity, like who are you?
- Really, what had happened was my identity was that I'm a fat kid.
- Well, our kids form their identity from our reflection of them.
- It's just who you are, your identity, about who you are in your soul.
- Being is our existence, our identity, our sense of self.
Examples
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You talk of this loss of identity when you married Will.
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And you can let go of that prior identity that you may have had.
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Losing myself, losing my identity, losing who I was.
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But then all of a sudden, my identity was sort of lost.
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Language is powerful and identity is constantly evolving.
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After this, teachers need to consider the identities of the students coming to the music room.
Academic text (2015) -
She remains relevant, and she remains part of the nation's identity.
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So, as we close out this semester, if I have one piece of advice for you moving forward in this complicated world, it is this: seize the identity you want for yourself.
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Many people feel a strong connection to their cultural identity through traditions and customs.
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Her passion for activism is a central part of her identity as a community leader.
Synonyms
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3.9
A person's idea of who they are
279
2.3
The qualities that make a person, place, or thing special
39
4.6
Qualities that make someone or something different from others
25
4.1
Being the only one of its kind
20
4.9
A person's real self, not the face they show others
5
4.2
A feeling that someone or something is different and important
4
6.0
A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
3
4.2
The set of things that make a person different and stay the same over time
2
6.8
Being a person with your own thoughts, feelings, and a sense of who you are
1
8.2
A quality of being a unique person with your own identity
1
5.6
Being clearly different from others
1
6.3
The fact that two things are not the same
Being the only one of its kind
A quality that makes a person or thing clearly different from all others
The quality that makes something different from all others
Antonyms
Compounds
28
3.5
Using someone else's personal details without permission to steal money or pretend to be them
- Formal
1
2.7
A document that shows who you are, like a passport or driver's licence
- Specialized
1
3.6
A process of checking documents or fingerprints to confirm someone really is who they say they are
- NSFW
A way people see themselves that mixes Chinese and African American ways of life, like style and speech
- Specialized
An element that leaves other elements unchanged when used with an operation, like 0 for addition or 1 for multiplication
- Specialized
A square table of numbers with ones on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere that acts like one when multiplying matrices
- Jargon
A way of describing sexual attraction that includes many different orientations beyond common labels
How Distinct
660
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
identity = identical (semi-transparent) = ident + ity
Formally built from the combining form 'ident' + '-ity', but the everyday sense 'qualities that make a person unique' is a development from the general idea of 'sameness' and is not directly inferable from the bare root for many learners.
Etymology
Identity comes from the Latin root idem, which means 'the same'. Think of it as the things that stay the same about you—your name, history, and habits—so identity is the set of qualities that make a person or group who they are.