Role vs Identity - What's the difference?
role | identity |
* 2012 , Stephen MacLean,
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.
As nouns the difference between role and identity
is that role is an alternative spelling of lang=en while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.role
English
Noun
(en noun)A cheer for constitutional monarchy's restraint on government], [[w:Adam Smith Institute, Adam Smith Institute]:
- As the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations wind down, it may be well to reflect on an aspect of public choice theory which supports constitutional monarchy — principally its rôle as a brake upon self-aggrandising politicians.
Anagrams
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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 .
