Individual vs. Identity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Individual and Identity
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Individual
An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities.
Identity
The fact of being who or what a person or thing is
She believes she is the victim of mistaken identity
He knows the identity of the bombers
Individual
Single; separate
Individual tiny flowers
Identity
A close similarity or affinity
An identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community
Individual
Of or for a particular person
The individual needs of the children
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Identity
A transformation that leaves an object unchanged.
Individual
A single human being as distinct from a group
Boat trips for parties and individuals
Identity
The equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1.
Individual
Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human
Individual consciousness.
Identity
The condition of being a certain person or thing
What is the identity of the author of the manuscript?.
Individual
By or for one person
Individual work.
An individual portion.
Identity
The set of characteristics by which a person or thing is definitively recognizable or known
"The identity of the nation had ... been keenly contested in the period of nationalist opposition to Imperial rule" (Judith M. Brown).
Individual
Existing as a distinct entity; separate
Individual drops of rain.
Identity
The awareness that an individual or group has of being a distinct, persisting entity
"He felt more at home thousands of miles from Britain than he did in an English village four miles from his home ... Was he losing his identity?" (Robert Fallon).
Individual
Marked by or expressing individuality; distinctive or individualistic
An individual way of dressing.
Identity
The fact or condition of being the same as something else
The identity of the two handwriting samples was established by an expert.
Individual
Special; particular
Each variety of melon has its individual flavor and texture.
Identity
The fact or condition of being associated or affiliated with something else
The identity between mass and energy.
Individual
Serving to identify or set apart
"There was nothing individual about him except a deep scar ... across his right cheek" (Rebecca West).
Identity
Information, such as an identification number, used to establish or prove a person's individuality, as in providing access to a credit account.
Individual
A single human considered apart from a society or community
The rights of the individual.
Identity
An equation that is satisfied by any number that replaces the letter for which the equation is defined.
Individual
A human regarded as a distinctive or unique personality
Always treated her clients as individuals.
Felt he was quite an individual.
Identity
Identity element.
Individual
A single organism as distinguished from a species, community, or group.
Identity
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
Individual
A member of a collection or set; a specimen.
Identity
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, 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 themself.
I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
Individual
A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
He is an unusual individual.
Identity
A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
This criminal has taken on several identities.
In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
Individual
(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
Identity
(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x2−y2 is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
Individual
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
Identity
Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
Individual
(statistics) An element belonging to a population.
Identity
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
Individual
Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
Identity
A well-known or famous person.
Individual
Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
Individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
Identity
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.
Individual
Not divisible without losing its identity.
Identity
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.
Individual
Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance.
United as one individual soul.
Identity
An identical equation.
Individual
Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
Identity
The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
You can lose your identity when you join the army
Individual
A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual.
That individuals die, his will ordains.
Identity
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
Individual
An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
Identity
An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;
The identity under numerical multiplication is 1
Individual
A human being;
There was too much for one person to do
Identity
Exact sameness;
They shared an identity of interests
Individual
A single organism
Individual
Being or characteristic of a single thing or person;
Individual drops of rain
Please mark the individual pages
They went their individual ways
Individual
Separate and distinct from others of the same kind;
Mark the individual pages
On a case-by-case basis
Individual
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing;
An individual serving
Separate rooms
Single occupancy
A single bed
Individual
Concerning one person exclusively;
We all have individual cars
Each room has a private bath
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