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Identity vs Subidentity - What's the difference?

identity | subidentity |

As nouns the difference between identity and subidentity

is that identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same while subidentity is an identity that makes up part of a larger identity.

identity

English

(wikipedia identity)

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.

    • 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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    subidentity

    English

    Noun

    (subidentities)
  • An identity that makes up part of a larger identity.
  • * 1978 , Sammy Smooha, Israel, pluralism and conflict
    • Although the Israeli subidentity is more important than the Jewish subidentity, for most Jews in Israel both are complementary rather than conflicting.