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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Identidade

Pronunciation / Transliteration: iden'tidade

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Identity/aɪˈdɛn.tə.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A identidade nacional é um tema importante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The condition of being oneself or itself, and not another.

    "Her identity as an artist is deeply tied to her cultural background."
  2. 2

    The qualities, beliefs, personality, looks, and expressions that make a person or group.

    "National identity can be shaped by language, traditions, and history."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin identitas, based on the Latin idem meaning 'the same'. Entering Middle English via French in the 16th century, the term initially denoted the quality of being identical or absolute sameness before evolving into the modern psychological and sociological concept of individuality and selfhood.

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