2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest;
self-interest; selfishness.
The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the
best writers as individualism.
Ed. Rev.
In`di*vid`u*al*is"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the individual or
individualism. London Athenæum.
In`di*vid`u*al"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Individualities (#). [Cf. F.
individualité.]
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.
In`di*vid`u*al*i*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. individualization.] The act of
individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.
In`di*vid"u*al*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Individualized (?); p. pr.
& vb. n. Individualizing (?).] [Cf. F. individualiser.] To mark as an
individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to
invest with individuality.
The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of
Addison.
N. Drake.
In`di*vid"u*al*i`zer (?), n. One who individualizes.
In`di*vid"u*al*ly, adv. 1. In an individual manner or relation; as
individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or
collectively." Burke.
How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no
substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist
with it?
Hooker.
2. In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly;
as, individually the same.
[Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead.
Hakewill.