identity
/aɪˈdɛn(t)ɪti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.65 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Benjamin Franklin established the identity of electricity and lightning."
- "But whenas a leſſer number of Agreements in each Paralleliſm (provided there were nothing contrary) could not but have been a ſtrong preſumption of the Identity of the Subjects of the Viſions in each Chapter, I mean, That the Two-horned Beaſt and the Whore are one, and the Seven-headed Beaſt in each Chapter the ſame; how fully aſſured muſt we needs be of theſe Identities, the Agreements of theſe two Paralleliſms (thoſe paſſages onely excepted of which I have given ſo fair an account) perfectly exhauſting the whole ſubſtance of each Chapter?"
- "[…] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]"
- "I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity."
- "This nation has a strong identity."
- "His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling."
Etymology
From Middle English ydemptite, from Middle French identité and its etymon Late Latin idemptitās, identitās, from idem (“the same”) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns) as a calque of Ancient Greek ταὐτότης (tautótēs, “sameness”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ydemptite, identité, idemptitās,identitās, ταὐτότης
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /aɪˈdɛn(t)ɪti/
- British English: /aɪˈdɛntɪti/