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individualization|ɪndɪˌvɪdjuːəlaɪˈzeɪʃən| [f. next + -ation.] The action of individualizing; the fact or condition of being individualized: in various senses of the vb.; see next.
1746W. Horsley Fool (1748) I. 195 A Nation, or Community, is a Number of Individuals assembled under one Kind of Government, for the mutual Benefit of each other; from which..in Proportion as they deviate, they fall into a Kind of Individualisation again. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 217 In a poem, the characters of which, amid the strongest individualization, must still remain representative. 1823Bentham Not Paul 24 Towards the individualization of the portion of space some approach is made: the town being foreknown..the street is particularized. 1845Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. 67/1 When this process of individualization is effected by a separate word, we call that word an Article. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 301 This individualization of the teeth is eminently significative of the high grade of organization of the animals manifesting it. 1876H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. iii. ix. (1879) 777 The division presupposed by individualization of property cannot be carried far without appliances which savage life does not furnish. |