identity - the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
Example:- geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
identity, individuality, personal identity - the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
Example:- you can lose your identity when you join the army
identicalness, identity, indistinguishability - exact sameness
Example:- they shared an identity of interests
identity, identity element, identity operator - an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
Example:- the identity under numerical multiplication is 1