Noun

(identities)

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.

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.

Noun

(wikipedia community) (communities)

A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.

* Hallam

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .

* Wordsworth

Creatures that in communities exist.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)

A commune, or residential or religious collective.

The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

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(ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.

(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.

* (John Locke)

The original community of all things.

* (Washington Irving)

An unreserved community of thought and feeling.

(obsolete) common character; likeness.

* H. Spencer

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.

(obsolete) commonness; frequency

* Shakespeare

Eyes sick and blunted with community .