| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun individuality.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (individuality) | 1. The quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality".[Wordnet]. 2. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity.[Wordnet]. 3. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.[Websters]. 4. 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.[Websters]. | |
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Date "INDIVIDUALITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1800. (references) |
Specialty Definition: individuality
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] Separate or distinct existence; a state of oneness.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| 19th Century Satire | A harmless trait possessed by one's self. The same trait in others is downright idiocy. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Health | Those psychological characteristics which differentiate individuals from one another. (references) | ||
| Physics | Maintenance of identity by an autopoietic machine independently from its interactions with an observer. (Maturana and Varela, 1979). (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (countable) A person. 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, As persons, therefore—gigantic individualities—they wheeled into the feudal ranks and assumed feudal powers and responsibilities. (references) | 2: [Noun] (uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity. 1856, William Pare, Equitable Villages in America, It is affirmed, that individuality pervades universal nature; that it is positively the most fundamental and universal principle which the finite mind seems capable of discovering, and the best image of the infinite. There are no two objects in the universe which are precisely alike. (references) | |
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