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say it: ahy-DEN-ti-tee
identity is a noun meaning "the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
“you can lose your identity when you join the army”
the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
“geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it”
“it was too dark to determine his identity”
“she guessed the identity of his lover”
an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
“the identity under numerical multiplication is 1”
exact sameness
“they shared an identity of interests”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for identity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.