identity

noun

1 they eventually discovered the identity of the owner:

name;

specification.

2 she was afraid of losing her identity as a writer:

individuality, self, selfhood, ego, personality, character, originality, distinctiveness, distinction, singularity, peculiarity, uniqueness, differentness.

3 a case of mistaken identity:

identification, recognition, naming, singling out, picking out, pinpointing, placing;

discerning, distinguishing;

North American, informal fingering.

4 management need to secure an identity of interests with shareholders:

identicalness, sameness, selfsameness, oneness, congruity, congruence, indistinguishability, interchangeability;

likeness, alikeness, uniformity, similarity, closeness, accordance, alignment, parallelism, symmetry.

▷antonyms mismatch.

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