Individuality

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The aggregate of qualities and characteristics that distinguish one person or thing from others; character.
  • noun. An individual or distinguishing feature.
  • noun. The quality or state of being individual; singularity.
  • noun. A single, distinct entity.
  • noun. Indivisibility.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition or mode of being individual.
  • noun. The particular or distinctive character of an individual; that quality, or aggregate of qualities, which distinguishes one person or thing from another; idiosyncrasy: as, a person of marked individuality.
  • noun. A personality; a personage; an individual.
  • noun. The existence, efforts, interests, or concerns of the individual as distinguished from the interests or concerns of the community.
  • noun. In biology:
  • noun. Physiological completeness or independence; the ability of an organism to perform its normal functions or live out its life without the cooperation of others.
  • noun. Structural independence, or homology with or morphological equivalence to a physiological individual.
  • noun. The uniqueness of a living being, or its difference from others of its kind and from the rest of nature. It is in this sense that the offspring is said to inherit the individuality or constitution of a parent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A habit of thinking and acting in one's own distinctive manner and as one believes appropriate, not being heavily influenced by the opinions of others; -- of people.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
  • noun. A person.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
  • noun. the quality of being individual
  • Word Usage
    "Still, I realised that this could not satisfy one, as far as the form which we term individuality was concerned."
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