identity

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I have always been a Jew and my identity is as strong as ever.

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  1. noun The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known: "If the broadcast group is the financial guts of the company, the news division is its public identity” (Bill Powell).
  2. noun The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.
  3. noun The quality or condition of being the same as something else.

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  • To demonstrate this identity is the office and object of his philosophy If it be said, that this is Idealism, let it be remembered that it is only so far idealism, as it is at the same time, and on that very account, the truest and most binding realism. —  Biographia Literaria
  • The documents I'd need to prove my identity were there, along with L2,000 that I had converted into Colonial dollars—C1,200 at the current rate of exchange—at the BanqueAmericano branch on Highgate just two days ago. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • To accept uploading, that, too, is wrong in her mind: she will not admit her identity is a variable, not a constant. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
  • Ethnicity may be a social fiction but looking ethnically ambiguous means your identity is always on the table, regardless of whether you actually feel like discussing it. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Within some sort of bounded social ecosystem - where we have common goals, such as within an enterprise - the digital identity concept changes: your identity is at least partially pre-created (e.g., through your local network credentials), but this isn't enough in a large organization where everyone doesn't know everyone personally and where there may be multiple systems that don't share credentials. —  Column 2
 

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  1. French identité, from Old French identite, from Late Latin identitās, from Latin idem, the same (influenced by Late Latin essentitās, being, and identidem, repeatedly), from id, it; see i- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French identité = Spanish identidad = Portuguese identidade = Italian identità = Dutch identiteit = German identität = Danish Swedish identitet, from Middle Latin identita(t-)s, sameness, from identicus, the same, from Latin identi- (in identidem, repeatedly), from idem, the same: see identic and idem.
 

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