The phrase "a distinctive identity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the unique characteristics or qualities that set someone or something apart from others.
Example: "The brand has developed a distinctive identity that resonates with its target audience."
Alternatives: "a unique identity" or "a recognizable identity".
We are Sarnas – those with a distinctive identity, independent of both".
Three hundred years ago, an anniversary being celebrated now, their last guru forged a distinctive identity.
While interconnected, these themes have a distinctive identity that cuts across exposures and diseases.
The company's chief executive, Rose Foster, said Monsoon and its Accesorize brands both had a distinctive identity.
And I think really gives it a distinctive identity, a distinctive culture that I find very appealing.
For all its obvious costs, this oppressive system also provided a range of secret weapons: it generated a devil-may-care dissident spirit, a distinctive identity.
Perhaps inevitably, the desperate urge to cover every musical base from dancefloor to soul-ballad means that there is barely a track here with any distinctive identity or even a tune.
The Guardians Adam Sweeting wrote that "the desperate urge to cover every musical base from dancefloor to soul-ballad means that there is barely a track here with any distinctive identity or even a tune".
The numbers don't tell the whole story, which is that he has constructed (aided, of course, by journalists and commentators quick to spot a good story) a highly distinctive identity.
The Lib Dems were not perceived as having a strong, distinctive identity and were seen to be a disappointment.
Core elements of a culture, those that are critical to a peoples' distinctive identity, are perhaps impossible to eradicate by external means -- even when suppressed for extended periods of time as with the two to three-generation hiatus in whaling noted earlier.
