alternative vs identical

alternative

adj
  • Other; different from something else. 

  • Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities. 

  • Presenting two or more alternatives. 

  • Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground. 

noun
  • A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. 

  • One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. 

  • alternative rock 

  • A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism. 

  • The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. 

identical

adj
  • Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical. 

  • Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable. 

  • Of twins, sharing the same genetic code. 

  • Approximating or approaching exact equivalence. 

  • Exactly equivalent. 

  • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:identical. 

noun
  • Something which has exactly the same properties as something else. 

  • An identical twin. 

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