Identity

Identity document

An identity document is a document proving a person's identity.

Identity (philosophy)

In metaphysics, identity is the relation each thing bears only to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles, and questions about change and personal identity over time. It is important to distinguish between qualitative identity and numerical identity. For example, consider two children with identical bicycles engaged in a race while their mother is watching. The two children have the same bicycle in one sense and the same mother in another sense. This article is mainly concerned with numerical identity, which is the stricter notion.

Identity (social science)

Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, or expressions that characterize a person or a group.

identity

Noun

1. Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
2. The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.