self-identity
nounEtymology From self- + identity.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The quality of being the same thing as itself.
- 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:
- 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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