sense of identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandidentity
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofsenseandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is a subjectivesenseofidentity.
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They also might have a strongsenseofidentity, but that is a problem rather than an asset.
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One might wonder what this "senseofidentity" which drives a wedge between choice and self-goal is.
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In 1993 six people (14 %) referred explicitly to religious and/or spiritual bases for theirsenseofidentity.
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Sound artists habitually have little concern that their appropriations may compromise their subject'ssenseofidentityor may violate their most intimate regions of privacy.
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There follows a chapter focusing on the meaning of trauma and its impact on an individual'ssenseofidentity.
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It comes out of asenseofidentityand belonging with the elder.
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It shows people's agency and efforts to mediate theirsenseofidentitywith the present socio-political ideas of democracy and equality.
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Meanwhile, they articulated their ownsenseofidentityand asserted claims to relief.
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Some trainees felt that they had a clearsenseofidentityand purpose but other health professional may not share this view.
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These functions include: filling the linguistic gaps, achieving pragmatic effects and managing discourse, defining social relationships, and expressing thesenseofidentity.
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He was no more specific than the self connoted a vaguesenseofidentity.
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In my view a department gaining asenseofidentityis an accident of history.
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The strength of a commitment varies with the role it plays in one's plans and one'ssenseofidentity.
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A particular form of masculinity permeates the hoboes'senseofidentity, which defines itself against the ' ' feminised ' ' and therefore detested condition of domesticity.
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I have purposely phrased this question more broadly than 'one'ssenseofidentity'.
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Values portray a people's outlook or consciousness andsenseofidentity.
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I shall call the first sort of identity our naturalsenseofidentity, and the second our constituted sense of personal identity.
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These basic attributes have been deployed in few interventions, and their potential for enhancing thesenseofidentityis not therefore yet known.
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