OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9357

identity

/aɪˈdɛntɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
identidad
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
[…] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]
identidad
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.
I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
identidad
An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x²−y² is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
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