individualizationn.
/ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdʒʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdʒᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdʒl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdjʊəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌɪndᵻˌvɪdjᵿlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒ(ə)wəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒ(ə)wələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌɪndəˌvɪdʒələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of individualizing (in various senses); the fact or condition of being individualized; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > making individual
individuation1628
numerication1694
individualization1746
individualizing1801
1746 Daily Gazetteer 3 Sept. 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.
1823 ‘G. Smith’ Not Paul, but Jesus i. 24 Towards the individualization of the portion of space some approach is made: the town being foreknown..the street is particularized.
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 301 This individualization of the teeth is eminently significative of the high grade of organization of the animals manifesting it.
1867 Congregational Rev. Jan. 9 Their wills are individualizations of his, even as their bodies are of his body.
1912 W. Montgomery tr. E. Troeltsch Protestantism & Progress v. 154 The Protestant individualisation of the conscience and the personality..continues to exercise an influence.
1937 J. P. Kinney Continent Lost iv. 114 A revival of the idea of the individualization of land holdings was very prominent.
1965 Victorian Poetry 3 105 Biological processes differ from civilizational processes in that the latter thrive upon individualizations within the ‘species’.
1998 Town & Country Planning 67 16/2 There is increasing individualisation and atomism within communities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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