self-identity

noun

The quality of being the same thing as itself.

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Meanings

nounself-identity (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being the same thing as itself.

    For LDS Church members, that history is taught from a young age as part of their self-identity.

    2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN
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    It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

    2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021

Origin

From self- + identity.

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APA

self-identity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-identity

MLA

“self-identity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-identity. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-identity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-identity.

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