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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Identity \I*den"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Identities}. [F. identit['e],
     LL. identitas, fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he,
     that; cf. Skr. idam this. Cf. {Item}.]
     1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same;
        sameness.
  
              Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a
              thing, not between things themselves. --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
  
     2. The condition of being the same with something described
        or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to
        establish the identity of stolen goods.
  
     3. (Math.) An identical equation.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  identity
       n 1: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a
            persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you
            join the army" [syn: {personal identity}, {individuality}]
       2: 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"
       3: an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it
          operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is
          1" [syn: {identity element}, {identity operator}]
       4: exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests" [syn:
           {identicalness}, {indistinguishability}]

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