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]:

     It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

Related terms

• self-identical