Identity can involve physical traits, such as eye color or height, but it doesnвЂ™t necessarily involve such things. In the term identity politics, identity refers to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, social, or other facets that a person considers as inherent to who they are, especially in relation to their belonging in a particular group or community of similar people. The concept of identity is complex and can involve all kinds of characteristics, qualities, experiences, interests, and other aspects of a person that make them distinct from anyone else. Superheroes often have secret identities. A case of mistaken identity involves someone being mistaken for someone they are not. A detective may try to determine the identity of a suspect-meaning who that person is (including things like their real name). Practically speaking, a personвЂ™s identity is who they really are. On a personal level, identity often refers to a personвЂ™s sense of self, meaning how they view themself as compared to other people. The word can be used in different ways in different contexts.

Identity is the unique set of characteristics that can be used to identify a person as themself and no one else. The phrase identity politics вЂњpolitical activity based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identityвЂќ was coined in 1973. Since then, issues of personal identity, especially sexual and gender identity, have provoked discussions about oneвЂ™s overlapping roles in society. вЂњOneвЂ™s personal characteristics, or the sense of who one is, as perceived by the person or by others,вЂќ is a meaning of identity that dates from the early 18th century. Identity comes into English via Middle French identitГ©, ydemtitГ©, ydemptitГ© вЂњthe quality of being the same, sameness,вЂќ from Late Latin identitДЃs (inflectional stem identitДЃt- ) вЂњthe quality of being the same, the condition or fact that an entity is itself and not another thing.вЂќ IdentitДЃs is formed partly from the Latin adverb identidem вЂњagain and again, repeatedly,вЂќ a contraction of idem et idem (вЂњthe same and the sameвЂќ), and partly from Late Latin essentitДЃs, a translation of Greek tauМ‰tГіtД“s вЂњidentityвЂќ (that is, tГІ auto вЂњthe sameвЂќ and the noun suffix -tД“s вЂњ-nessвЂќ).

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