new identity
Assumed different self
A new identity is a fresh personal history—different name, documents, and background—adopted to replace one's previous self.
People assume new identities to escape danger, evade law enforcement, or start over after trauma: The witness protection program gave her a new identity.
The phrase also applies to reinvented public personas or profound personal transformation: After the divorce, she embraced a new identity as an artist.
- reinventionComplete self-transformation
- new beginningChance to start again
- aliasAdopted false name
- fresh startOpportunity to restart unburdened
- starting overBeginning again from scratch
new life · witness protection · transformation · rebirth · disguise · passport · documents · escape · anonymity · makeover · pseudonym · name change · clean slate · blank slate · disappear · fugitive · undercover · persona
- false identitiesalias, false name, assumed name, pseudonym, fake ID
- Foreign Legionlegionnaire, esprit de corps, French citizenship, second chance, anonymity
- name changesname change, legal name change, court order, maiden name, married name
- reinventionfresh start, starting over, new beginning, clean slate, new chapter
new identitygiven name
Personal name from birth
birth records · birth name · maiden name · legal name · true name
identity, newer, newest, newly, newness, renewal, renewable, identify, identical