Hypertext Webster Gateway: "individuality"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Individuality \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
individuality
n 1: the quality of being individual: "so absorbed by the
movement that she lost all sense of individuality" [syn:
{individualism}] [ant: {commonality}]
2: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a
persisting entity: "you can lose your identity when you
join the army" [syn: {identity}]
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