Unmask vs Identity - What's the difference?
unmask | identity |
To remove a mask from someone.
To expose, or reveal the true character of someone.
To remove one's mask.
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 a verb unmask
is to remove a mask from someone.As a noun identity is
sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.unmask
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Alternative forms
* unmasque (archaic)Verb
(en verb)identity
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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 .
