The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word IDENTITY
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More clues leading to the result IDENTITY
- I study songbird with unknown name
- This writer refuses to accept singer’s distinctive property
- Tiny diet’s awful sameness
- Tiny edit affected equation
- Name of bird I refuse to eat
- I refuse to pen bird’s name
- I had existence as a distinct personality
- Character I refuse to accept has stolen bird
- A mostly innocent sort of parade
- Name in papers
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Name" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case name = identity.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does IDENTITY mean?
IDENTITY noun- Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
- The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
- A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
- Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
- A well-known or famous person.