Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

personal identity

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English

Syllables: per-son-al i-den-ti-ty
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"It was largely in order to defend the justice of divine rewards and punishments in the face of his own relative agnosticism about substantial souls that Locke offered his reductive empiricist analysis of personal identity in terms of consciousness and memory."

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

identity individuality

Questions

What does personal identity mean?: The criteria for the persistence of persons over time (i.e. what makes one the same person as one was yesterday, or ten years ago), and the criteria for the individuation of persons from others.

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