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What is the noun for identity?

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identity
  1. Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
  2. The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
  3. A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
  4. Sense of who one is.
  5. (computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
  6. (algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
  7. (Australia, NZ) A well-known or famous person.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Police are trying to determine the identity of the perpetrator.”
      “The two sides are locked in a battle over the identity of the nation where loyalties are heavily divided.”
      “In Eastern Europe and Russia, there was a close identity between the industrial proletariat and the peasantry.”
identifier
  1. Someone who identifies; a person who establishes the identity of.
  2. Something that identifies or uniquely points to something or someone else.
  3. A guidebook that helps determine the specific class of an object (such as a mushroom, herb, fish, bird, drug, or mineral), or its individual identity (such as that of a star).
  4. (programming) A formal name used in source code to refer to a variable, function, procedure, package, etc. or in an operating system to refer to a process, user, group, etc.
  5. (HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.
  6. (databases) A primary key.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The only thing that can help in this case is if the device has some form of unique identifier, such as a serial number.”
      “This is typically done with a unique identifier such as a user name, ID card or a token.”
      “The notification database has been computerized with the identity card number as the unique identifier.”
identification
  1. The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
  2. The state of being identified.
  3. A particular instance of identifying something.
  4. A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
  5. A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “When Homer was seventeen, he drank some very good beer that he purchased with his fake identification.”
      “The identification of two named genera in a single organism presents a taxonomic dilemma.”
      “Early identification of the disease can prevent future complications.”
ident
  1. Identification.
  2. (television) A brief audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
  3. (Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
  4. identifier (Can we add an example for this sense?)
identical
  1. (philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
  2. An identical twin.
identicon
  1. (computing) A graphical symbol, usually automatically generated, representing some entity for easy visual identification.
identism
  1. The doctrine that states of the mind and states of the brain are identical.
identitarian
  1. One who supports the theory of identitarianism.
identifyee
  1. a person or thing that is being identified
  2. Examples:
    1. “Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?”
identitarianism
  1. (sociology) politics based on social identity
identicality
  1. The state or quality of being identical.
identicalness
  1. The state or quality of being identical.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This value of equality is not to be mistaken for or confused with identicalness or stereotype.”
      “The identicalness of production circumstances can be distinguished by similar saturations around producing wells.”
      “However, priority was given to the identicalness of the adjustment procedure in both risk populations.”
identifiability
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being identifiable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For reasons of what I suppose is identifiability, Constantine has been Americanized.”
      “When it comes to government programs, though, identifiability seems to be more a curse than a blessing.”
      “Missing the essential satirical ingredient of identifiability, it doesn't even match its dim predecessor on the scare front.”
identitylessness
  1. Absence of identity.
identitarianisms
  1. plural of identitarianism
identifications
  1. plural of identification
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Gendered conceptions of parental belonging and place identity represent two extremes on the continuum of possible identifications.”
      “Three groups of 20 calves found with suspect identifications or without tags over the past three days are the focus of the investigation.”
      “They are flattened and deformed, so some doubts about the identifications exist.”
identitarians
  1. plural of identitarian
identicalities
  1. plural of identicality
identifiers
  1. plural of identifier
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency introduced new plates on Saturday, with location and age identifiers within the registration numbers.”
      “These data were then used to create unique identifiers for unduplicating and matching case records according to a predetermined process.”
      “Optical and photonic technology can address this area by providing unique biometric identifiers.”
identifyees
  1. plural of identifyee
identicons
  1. plural of identicon
identicals
  1. plural of identical
  2. Examples:
    1. “A related principle is the indiscernibility of identicals, discussed below.”
      “The bulk of the confusion concerns identicals who are really fraternals.”
identities
  1. plural of identity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Kanak formulate their identities through their relationships to the landscape and its elements, both visible and invisible.”
      “They can fashion and refashion their identities, and through much of their lives that is just what they do.”
      “Some data will be compared with commercial databases to see if identities are accurate and to resolve false positive matches with the watch list.”
idents
  1. plural of ident
  2. Examples:
    1. “In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.”
      “These versions of BBC Two share the same idents, but with the nation name in the BBC Two box.”
      “From 1 January 2007 to 16 January, temporary idents were used which gave a nod towards what was to come for the new presentation on the station.”
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