Meaning of INDIVIDUALITY
| Pronunciation: | | `indu`vijoo'alitee
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- [n] the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
- [n] the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality"
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| | Synonyms: | | identity, individualism, individuation, personal identity |
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| | Antonyms: | | commonality, commonness | | |
| | See Also: | | distinctiveness, gender identity, identification, peculiarity, personality, personhood, singularity, speciality, specialness, specialty, trait, uniqueness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`di*vid`u*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Individualities}.
[Cf. F. individualit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting
an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness;
unity. --Arbuthnot.
They possess separate individualities. --H. Spencer.
2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an
individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or
thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits;
distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked
individuality.
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| | Related Terms: | | character, combination, complexion, difference, differentiation, differentness, dissimilarity, distinctiveness, egohood, fusion, human factor, humor, identity, independence, individualism, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, makeup, nature, nominalism, nonconformity, oneness, organic unity, particularism, particularity, personal equation, personal identity, personality, personship, purity, selfhood, self-identity, selfness, selfsameness, separateness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, solidarity, solidification, solidity, soul, temper, temperament, undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity, univocity, unlikeness, wholeness |
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