individuality

[In`di*vid`u*al·i*ty]

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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The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.

Noun
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"

Noun
the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality"


n.
The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.

n.
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.


Individuality

In`di*vid`u*al"i*ty , n.; pl. Individualities . [Cf. F. individualit'82.] 1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot.
They possess separate individualities.
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.

The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.

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Usage Examples

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

Equality implies individuality.

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

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Other Usage Examples

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

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