Identity vs Entity - What's the difference?
identity | entity |
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
* 1997 , Hydrothermal Vent Fauna'', in ''Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans , page 111:
The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
As nouns the difference between identity and entity
is that identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same while entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.identity
English
(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .
Synonyms
* selfhood * identity functionDerived terms
* additive identity * identity card * identity of indiscernibles * identity theft * law of identity * left identity * mistaken identity * multiplicative identity * personal identity * quasiidentity * right identityExternal links
* *entity
English
(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.