individualityn.

Brit.

/ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdʒʊˈalᵻti/,

/ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdjʊˈalᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒəˈwælədi/

Forms: see individual adj. and n. and -ity suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: individual adj., -ity suffix.

Etymology: < individual adj. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin individualitas (12th cent.; 13th cent. in British sources), Middle French, French individualité characteristic attributes of an individual (a1472).The following quot. may show a parallel formation individualty ( < individual adj. + -ty suffix¹), or may show an error for this word:1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 16 These words also inferre that there ought to be an individualty in Mariage.

1. An individual entity; spec. a person considered as the possessor of an individual or distinctive personality.With quot. 1775, cf. individual n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > person

singular man or person?c1400

individuala1500

particular1576

individuality1775

1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. 2 From the variety of that indiuiduality [sc. an art or science], the intellectuall power frameth generall notions and maximes of rule, vniting tearms of the same nature in one head.

1635 J. Lechmere Relection Conf. Reall Presence iv. 469 How then could it be concluded that two of them [sc. sacramental presences] be two substantiall indiuidualities?

1775 S. Johnson Let. 26 July in H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. cxxxiii. 288 Here sit poor I, with nothing but my own solitary individuality.

1859 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. iv. 245 That little cherished individuality, though ever so young, lives on.

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 759 In what respects the earth is an individuality.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia App. 61 When the eternal foes are so intermingled and interfused that to human eyes they seem to coalesce into a multitude of individualities.

1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xiii. iv. 475 Elsie and Moissey were the strongest individualities in the family.

2002 M. D. Steinberg Proletarian Imagination iii. 116 The heroic figures described in workers' writings were almost always paradoxical individualities, who magnified themselves by serving others.

a. The sum of the attributes which distinguish a person or thing from others of the same kind; individual character or quality, esp. (in later use) when strongly marked. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun]

singulerty1414

singularness1530

singularity1583

individuality1614

haecceity1635

thisness1643

individuity1650

individualness1681

singleness1728

individuism1825

individualism1847

inscape1868

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > peculiarity of constitution > strongly marked individual character

individuality1792

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 117 Appietas and Lentulitas, For the induidualite [sic], as it were of Appius and Lentulus, or Patauinitas for Liuies stile.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 196 A man is a living Creature, mortall, and capable of learning. In this sentence, man abstracted from individualitie..is described.

1759 E. Young Conjectures on Orig. Composition 42 That medling Ape Imitation,..snatches the Pen, and blots out nature's mark of Separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental Individuality.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 151 The spring-tide of life over, we look for soberer sense in the face,..expecting to see individuality of character.

1839 N.Y. Rev. July 186 These faults, however, grow out of some of his most pleasant traits, and are a part of his individuality.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §10. 585 The Puritan individuality is nowhere so overpowering as in Milton.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 21 In every man's writings there is something like himself and unlike others, which gives individuality.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 18 The circumstances which give to the different diseases their individuality.

1906 Q. Rev. July 129 The artist, however strong his individuality, cannot escape from the influence of his environment.

1924 Minnesota Hist. Bull. 5 586 The various Minnesota communities, although similar in many ways, have individualities of their own.

1969 Guardian 19 Aug. 6/5 The tall, lithe Curro Velez with a real individuality of style.

2009 R. Scruton Beauty vii. 148 Human beings are alone among the animals in revealing their individuality in their faces.

b. Usually in plural. A feature or characteristic that is peculiar to a particular individual; an idiosyncrasy. Cf. individualism n. 3b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic > characteristics

lineament1638

individuality1642

jizz1922

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H8 The soul..Against the law of Corporeities, It doth devest them both of time and place, And of all individualities.

1796 Edinb. Mag. May 332/1 The individualities of the visage.

1830 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 17 July 44/1 His classification is characterised by a happy perspicuity, in seizing upon the individualities of each kind of rock.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 14 All identically the same in edition and minor individualities.

1921 Printers' Ink 10 Nov. 65/1 If advertisers were to study each market thoroughly so that they knew its individualities—they would not try to sell raincoats where there is no rain or fur coats where there is no snow.

1943 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 67 246 The Zoological Garden..is pure Furness, exhibiting all his individualities.

3. The state or quality of being indivisible or inseparable; indivisibility, inseparability. Cf. individual adj. 1, 2. Now rare.Chiefly with reference to the Trinity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person

substance1340

individuum?a1425

individa1500

suppositum1593

supposite1612

singular1615

individuality1631

the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > wholeness or unity of being > that which is indivisible

individuality1631

undividablea1739

impartible1788

imparticipable1789

monolith1880

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > unity or undividedness > [noun]

unitya1393

individuity1611

individuality1631

individuation1655

undividedness1889

1631 R. Fludd Answer vnto M. Foster ii. iii. 87 The indiuisibility and indiuiduality of the giuer, and the gift which is giuen.

a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1765) II. cv. 253/2 Is it not comfortable, that your life is hid with Christ in the unity and individuality of God?

1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. ii. 188 As though He were so derived from the simple Unity of God as in no respect to be divided or extended from it,..but to inhere within His mysterious individuality.

2011 L. O. Nielsen in G. Emery & M. Levering Oxf. Handbk. Trinity xi. 161 Hincmar retorted that Gottschalk's basic perception entailed the denial of the individuality of the Trinity and, accordingly, it was a short cut to the heresy of tritheism.

a. The fact or condition of existing as an individual; separate and continuous existence as a single indivisible entity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > condition of being an individual

suppositality1545

individuation1616

individuality1635

suppositionality1649

individualness1681

individualism1847

1635 J. Lechmere Relection Conf. Reall Presence iv. 469 Neither of them, is the substantiall indiuidualitie of the bodie; for, the bodie was before, and will be the same after.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 51 But the soul subsisting, other matter clothed with due accidents, may salve the individuality.

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 28 in A. Pope Wks. II Crambe would tell his Instructor..that Individuality could hardly be prædicated of any man.

1787 J. Madison Jrnl. Constit. Convent. in Writings (1902) III. 240 The individuality of the States would not be endangered.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvii. 583 Consciousness carries identity and individuality along with it through all changes of form or of visible qualities.

1876 J. P. Norris Rudim. Theol. i. iv. 72 Individuality is essential to our idea of a person.

1908 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 489 The Protistic parent that loses its individuality in its offspring when it divides.

1951 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 1 305 The electron,..whose position in space could be specified by a mathematical point, associated with an inertial mass, and possessing individuality.

2008 J. Kekes Enjoyment iv. 61 In the descriptive sense, we all have individuality, if for no other reason than that we all have a unique spatio-temporal position and a unique vantage point from which we view and interact with our environment.

b. The fact or condition of being free from the influence or control of a group, the State, etc.; individual independence or autonomy. Cf. individualism n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > person > action or position of

individualityc1740

c1740 Visct. Bolingbroke Idea Patriot King vi. 45 Men were directed by Nature to form Societies, because they cannot by their Nature subsist without them, nor in a State of Individuality.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 143 Thus the commonwealth itself would..crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality .

1835 tr. A. de Lamartine Pilgrimage Holy Land III. 359 The populace..has achieved barren rights without the means of subsistence, and will shake the foundations of society till sociality shall have succeeded to individuality.

1893 Andover Rev. May 382 That spectre [sc. Socialism] which to-day menaces individuality, and stays the coming of brotherhood.

1906 J. Mackinnon Hist. Mod. Liberty I. x. 206 The peasantry or Bonden, after long battling to preserve their individuality against the growing power of king, nobility, and priesthood.

2012 D. Berry Revisiting Frankfurt School iv. 81 Liberalism is indicative of human nature because it allows people to pursue a state of individuality because all humans pursue ‘recognition’.

5. In phrenology: the faculty of perceiving entities as separate or distinct, esp. as associated with a specific organ (organ n.¹ 9). Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > faculty of object recognition

individuality1818

1818 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. 10 363 Individuality, Locality, and Comparison are very large, and form the strongest features of his intellect.

1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets 187 To use the lingo of the phrenologists, his locality is better than his individuality.

1926 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 20/3 The professor pressed his buzzer and summoned the department head of Individuality.

1997 C. Colbert Meas. Perfection viii. 355 In moving from this organ [sc. Acquisitiveness] to Individuality he advanced forward in the head.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	individuality
释义	individualityn. Brit. /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdʒʊˈalᵻti/, /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdjʊˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒəˈwælədi/ Forms: see individual adj. and n. and -ity suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: individual adj., -ity suffix. Etymology: < individual adj. + -ity suffix. Compare post-classical Latin individualitas (12th cent.; 13th cent. in British sources), Middle French, French individualité characteristic attributes of an individual (a1472).The following quot. may show a parallel formation individualty ( < individual adj. + -ty suffix¹), or may show an error for this word:1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 16 These words also inferre that there ought to be an individualty in Mariage. 1. An individual entity; spec. a person considered as the possessor of an individual or distinctive personality.With quot. 1775, cf. individual n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > person singular man or person?c1400 individuala1500 particular1576 individuality1775 1600 C. Edmondes Obseruations Fiue Bks. Caesars Comm. 2 From the variety of that indiuiduality [sc. an art or science], the intellectuall power frameth generall notions and maximes of rule, vniting tearms of the same nature in one head. 1635 J. Lechmere Relection Conf. Reall Presence iv. 469 How then could it be concluded that two of them [sc. sacramental presences] be two substantiall indiuidualities? 1775 S. Johnson Let. 26 July in H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. cxxxiii. 288 Here sit poor I, with nothing but my own solitary individuality. 1859 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) II. iv. 245 That little cherished individuality, though ever so young, lives on. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 759 In what respects the earth is an individuality. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia App. 61 When the eternal foes are so intermingled and interfused that to human eyes they seem to coalesce into a multitude of individualities. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xiii. iv. 475 Elsie and Moissey were the strongest individualities in the family. 2002 M. D. Steinberg Proletarian Imagination iii. 116 The heroic figures described in workers' writings were almost always paradoxical individualities, who magnified themselves by serving others. 2. a. The sum of the attributes which distinguish a person or thing from others of the same kind; individual character or quality, esp. (in later use) when strongly marked. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] singulerty1414 singularness1530 singularity1583 individuality1614 haecceity1635 thisness1643 individuity1650 individualness1681 singleness1728 individuism1825 individualism1847 inscape1868 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > peculiarity of constitution > strongly marked individual character individuality1792 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 117 Appietas and Lentulitas, For the induidualite [sic], as it were of Appius and Lentulus, or Patauinitas for Liuies stile. 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 196 A man is a living Creature, mortall, and capable of learning. In this sentence, man abstracted from individualitie..is described. 1759 E. Young Conjectures on Orig. Composition 42 That medling Ape Imitation,..snatches the Pen, and blots out nature's mark of Separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental Individuality. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 151 The spring-tide of life over, we look for soberer sense in the face,..expecting to see individuality of character. 1839 N.Y. Rev. July 186 These faults, however, grow out of some of his most pleasant traits, and are a part of his individuality. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §10. 585 The Puritan individuality is nowhere so overpowering as in Milton. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 21 In every man's writings there is something like himself and unlike others, which gives individuality. 1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 18 The circumstances which give to the different diseases their individuality. 1906 Q. Rev. July 129 The artist, however strong his individuality, cannot escape from the influence of his environment. 1924 Minnesota Hist. Bull. 5 586 The various Minnesota communities, although similar in many ways, have individualities of their own. 1969 Guardian 19 Aug. 6/5 The tall, lithe Curro Velez with a real individuality of style. 2009 R. Scruton Beauty vii. 148 Human beings are alone among the animals in revealing their individuality in their faces. b. Usually in plural. A feature or characteristic that is peculiar to a particular individual; an idiosyncrasy. Cf. individualism n. 3b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a characteristic > characteristics lineament1638 individuality1642 jizz1922 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H8 The soul..Against the law of Corporeities, It doth devest them both of time and place, And of all individualities. 1796 Edinb. Mag. May 332/1 The individualities of the visage. 1830 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 17 July 44/1 His classification is characterised by a happy perspicuity, in seizing upon the individualities of each kind of rock. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 14 All identically the same in edition and minor individualities. 1921 Printers' Ink 10 Nov. 65/1 If advertisers were to study each market thoroughly so that they knew its individualities—they would not try to sell raincoats where there is no rain or fur coats where there is no snow. 1943 Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 67 246 The Zoological Garden..is pure Furness, exhibiting all his individualities. 3. The state or quality of being indivisible or inseparable; indivisibility, inseparability. Cf. individual adj. 1, 2. Now rare.Chiefly with reference to the Trinity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person substance1340 individuum?a1425 individa1500 suppositum1593 supposite1612 singular1615 individuality1631 the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > wholeness or unity of being > that which is indivisible individuality1631 undividablea1739 impartible1788 imparticipable1789 monolith1880 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > unity or undividedness > [noun] unitya1393 individuity1611 individuality1631 individuation1655 undividedness1889 1631 R. Fludd Answer vnto M. Foster ii. iii. 87 The indiuisibility and indiuiduality of the giuer, and the gift which is giuen. a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1765) II. cv. 253/2 Is it not comfortable, that your life is hid with Christ in the unity and individuality of God? 1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. ii. 188 As though He were so derived from the simple Unity of God as in no respect to be divided or extended from it,..but to inhere within His mysterious individuality. 2011 L. O. Nielsen in G. Emery & M. Levering Oxf. Handbk. Trinity xi. 161 Hincmar retorted that Gottschalk's basic perception entailed the denial of the individuality of the Trinity and, accordingly, it was a short cut to the heresy of tritheism. 4. a. The fact or condition of existing as an individual; separate and continuous existence as a single indivisible entity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > condition of being an individual suppositality1545 individuation1616 individuality1635 suppositionality1649 individualness1681 individualism1847 1635 J. Lechmere Relection Conf. Reall Presence iv. 469 Neither of them, is the substantiall indiuidualitie of the bodie; for, the bodie was before, and will be the same after. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 51 But the soul subsisting, other matter clothed with due accidents, may salve the individuality. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 28 in A. Pope Wks. II Crambe would tell his Instructor..that Individuality could hardly be prædicated of any man. 1787 J. Madison Jrnl. Constit. Convent. in Writings (1902) III. 240 The individuality of the States would not be endangered. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvii. 583 Consciousness carries identity and individuality along with it through all changes of form or of visible qualities. 1876 J. P. Norris Rudim. Theol. i. iv. 72 Individuality is essential to our idea of a person. 1908 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 489 The Protistic parent that loses its individuality in its offspring when it divides. 1951 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 1 305 The electron,..whose position in space could be specified by a mathematical point, associated with an inertial mass, and possessing individuality. 2008 J. Kekes Enjoyment iv. 61 In the descriptive sense, we all have individuality, if for no other reason than that we all have a unique spatio-temporal position and a unique vantage point from which we view and interact with our environment. b. The fact or condition of being free from the influence or control of a group, the State, etc.; individual independence or autonomy. Cf. individualism n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > an individual thing or person > person > action or position of individualityc1740 c1740 Visct. Bolingbroke Idea Patriot King vi. 45 Men were directed by Nature to form Societies, because they cannot by their Nature subsist without them, nor in a State of Individuality. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 143 Thus the commonwealth itself would..crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality . View more context for this quotation 1835 tr. A. de Lamartine Pilgrimage Holy Land III. 359 The populace..has achieved barren rights without the means of subsistence, and will shake the foundations of society till sociality shall have succeeded to individuality. 1893 Andover Rev. May 382 That spectre [sc. Socialism] which to-day menaces individuality, and stays the coming of brotherhood. 1906 J. Mackinnon Hist. Mod. Liberty I. x. 206 The peasantry or Bonden, after long battling to preserve their individuality against the growing power of king, nobility, and priesthood. 2012 D. Berry Revisiting Frankfurt School iv. 81 Liberalism is indicative of human nature because it allows people to pursue a state of individuality because all humans pursue ‘recognition’. 5. In phrenology: the faculty of perceiving entities as separate or distinct, esp. as associated with a specific organ (organ n.¹ 9). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > faculty of object recognition individuality1818 1818 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. 10 363 Individuality, Locality, and Comparison are very large, and form the strongest features of his intellect. 1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets 187 To use the lingo of the phrenologists, his locality is better than his individuality. 1926 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 20/3 The professor pressed his buzzer and summoned the department head of Individuality. 1997 C. Colbert Meas. Perfection viii. 355 In moving from this organ [sc. Acquisitiveness] to Individuality he advanced forward in the head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600
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