personal identity

Questions about personal identity

What does personal identity mean?

personal identity means "the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity".

What is another word for personal identity?

Close synonyms include identity, individuality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is personal identity a common word?

personal identity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for personal identity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.