identity
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
The set of attribute values (i.e., characteristics) by which an entity is recognizable and that, within the scope of an identity manager’s responsibility, is sufficient to distinguish that entity from any other entity.
Framework senses
- §1
- Identity is whom someone or what something is, for example, the name by which something is known.
- §1
- The set of attribute values (i.e., characteristics) by which an entity is recognizable and that, within the scope of an identity manager's responsibility, is sufficient to distinguish that entity from any other entity.
- §1
- The set of attribute values (i.e., characteristics) by which an entity is recognizable and that, within the scope of an identity manager's responsibility, is sufficient to distinguish that entity from any other entity.
- §1
- A set of attributes that uniquely describe a person within a given context.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- The set of physical and behavioral characteristics by which an individual is uniquely recognizable.
- §3 · sense_3_pending_review
- The set of attribute values (i.e., characteristics) by which an entity is recognizable and that, within the scope of an identity manager’s responsibility, is sufficient to distinguish that entity from any other entity.
- §1
- The set of attribute values (i.e., characteristics) by which an entity is recognizable and that, within the scope of an identity manager’s responsibility, is sufficient to distinguish that entity from any other entity.
- §1
- A set of attributes that uniquely describe a person within a given context.
- §1
- The set of physical and behavioral characteristics by which an individual is uniquely recognizable.
- §1
- the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
- §2
- exact sameness
- §3
- the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
- §4
- an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates