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noun

identity

CEFR B1

the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with identity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Adolescents try on a dozen selves in five years, and the identity that survives usually holds for decades afterwards.

    Psychology

  • The novel follows one clerk whose identity stays recognisably the same across sixty years and four different countries.

    Literature

  • If every cell is replaced within a decade, philosophers ask what carries a person's identity from the child to the pensioner.

    Philosophy

  • The film asks whether the amnesiac keeps his identity, since his habits and kindness survive when every memory is gone.

    Movies

  • His identity as a pass-first playmaker survived three coaches and two trades, and teammates still describe him the same way.

    Basketball

  • Biographers trace Lincoln's identity from the storytelling farm boy to the president, finding the same dry humour in both.

    History

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