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Identity may refer to:
Philosophy
- Identity (philosophy), the sameness of two things
- Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
- Personal identity
- Identity formation
- Law of identity, a principle of logic
Mathematics
- Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
- Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
- Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
- Identity matrix, a square matrix I with ones on the diagonal, zeros elsewhere
Social science and psychology
- Identity (social science), stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
- Cultural identity, a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
- Gender identity, the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others)
- Psychological identity, an individual's unique identity that develops relatively late in his life
- Online identity, established and used by computer network users (see also Digital identity in Computer Science)
Business
- Accounting identity, a basic accounting formulation that must hold
- Corporate identity, the physical manifestation of a business brand
- Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
Computer science
- Digital identity, the representation of identity in terms of digital information (see also Online identity in Social science)
- Federated identity, identity management with defined trust relations between independent principals
- Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.
- Identity column in SQL Server, a database field whose values uniquely identify a row in the table
Religion
- Christian Identity, a controversial religious belief that Europeans and their descendants are the Biblical Israel
Television, film, music and literature
- Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
- Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
- Identity (album), by Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris
- Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
- Identity (game show), on NBC hosted by Penn Jillette
See also
- Secret identity (disambiguation)
- Identity theft
- Identity document
- Identification (disambiguation)
- Biometrics
- Entity
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