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  1. The sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal.
  2. The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind.
  3. A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
    This criminal has taken on several identities
  4. Knowledge of who one is.
    I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
    This nation has a strong identity.

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  • Identity (social science), stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
  • Cultural identity, a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
  • Gender identity, the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others)
  • Psychological identity, an individual's unique identity that develops relatively late in his life
  • Online identity, established and used by computer network users (see also Digital identity in Computer Science)




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