identically

In an identical manner.

Adverb

  1. In an identical manner.
    • It was hard to tell the twins apart: they even spoke identically.
    • It was inevitable that such a system should lead to the wide use of nicknames to distinguish identically named members of a family[…] - 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of...
  2. In terms of an identity.
    • two expressions that are identically equal to each other

Origin

Etymology tree English identical Middle English -ly English -ly English identically From identical + -ly.

Forms

more identically most identically

Derived

identically zero