self-identity

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ identity.

Noun

self-identity (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) The quality of being the same thing as itself.
    • 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 6 May 2021:
      It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
    • 2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN‎[2]:
      For LDS Church members, that history is taught from a young age as part of their self-identity.
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