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Definition of "personal identity" [personal identity]

  • The persistent and continuous unity of the individual person, which is attested by consciousness. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "personal identity" in a sentence
  • "According to Celia Green, reflecting on your personal identity can induce the experience."
  • "Indeed, personal identity seems to be an essential part or element of intellectual natures, as without it one person cannot be known from other conscious intellectualities."
  • "It had been Wren who comforted him when that first white hair slithered like a viper into his happy garden, Wren who had aided and abetted his subsequent subterfuge even though she'd been shocked by his crazy notions of personal identity and survival, Wren who had plucked him from the burial mound-and that very night spread her legs for his successor."