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Identity vs Awareness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between identity and awareness

is that identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same while awareness is the state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.

identity

English

(wikipedia identity)

Noun

(identities)
  • 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.
    • This criminal has taken on several identities .
  • Sense of who one is.
    • I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
    This nation has a strong identity .
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * selfhood * identity function

    Derived terms

    * additive identity * identity card * identity of indiscernibles * identity theft * law of identity * left identity * mistaken identity * multiplicative identity * personal identity * quasiidentity * right identity

    Related terms

    * identic * identical * identification * identify

    External links

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    awareness

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia awareness) (en-noun)
  • The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
    • I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness .
  • The state or quality of being aware of something
    • ''The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea

    Synonyms

    * (state of consciousness) consciousness, wakefulness * (state of being aware of something) knowledge, consciousness