nnoun.attributethe distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entitySynset:individuality personal identity
Examples:- you can lose your identity when you join the army
Derivationally Related Form:identify
Hypernyms:personality
Inherited Hypernyms:identitypersonalityattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:gender identityidentificationpersonhood
Full Hyponyms:gender identityidentificationpersonhood
nnoun.cognitionthe individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or knownExamples:- 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 Form:identify
Hypernyms:identification recognition
Inherited Hypernyms:identityrecognitionmemorybasic cognitive processprocesscognitionpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.relationan operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operatesSynset:identity element identity operator
Examples:- the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
Hypernyms:operator
Inherited Hypernyms:identityoperatorfunctionmathematical relationrelationabstractionentity
nnoun.attributeexact samenessSynset:identicalness indistinguishability
Examples:- they shared an identity of interests
Derivationally Related Form:identicalidentifyindistinguishable
Hypernyms:sameness
Inherited Hypernyms:identitysamenessqualityattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:onenessselfsamenessunity
Full Hyponyms:onenessselfsameness