Equality vs Identity - What's the difference?
equality | identity |
(uncountable) The fact of being equal.
(uncountable, mathematics) The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
(uncountable) The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
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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.
As nouns the difference between equality and identity
is that equality is (uncountable) the fact of being equal while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.equality
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
Synonyms
* (fact of being equal ): equivalence parity,Antonyms
* (fact of being equal ): difference, inequality * (equal treatment of people ): discrimination, inequality nonequivilenceidentity
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(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 .