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Identity may refer to:

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

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

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)

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

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

Christian Identity, a controversial religious belief that Europeans and their descendants are the Biblical Israel