/ English Dictionary

INDIVIDUALITY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

Example:

you can lose your identity when you join the army

Synonyms:

identity; individuality; personal identity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("individuality" is a kind of...):

personality (the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "individuality"):

gender identity (your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence)

identification (the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons))

personhood (being a person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being individual

Example:

so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality

Synonyms:

individualism; individuality; individuation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("individuality" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "individuality"):

singularity; uniqueness (the quality of being one of a kind)

distinctiveness; peculiarity; speciality; specialness; specialty (a distinguishing trait)

Antonym:

commonality (sharing of common attributes)

Derivation:

individual (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

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