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Individual Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Individual?

[n]
[n] a single organism
[adj] being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways"
[adj] separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"
[adj] characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Individual: case-by-case | human | idiosyncratic | independent | individualist | individualistic | item-by-item | man-to-man | mortal | one-on-one | particular(a) | person | respective(a) | separate | several(a) | single(a) | singular | somebody | someone | soul | unshared | various(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Individual: a certain | absolute | Adamite | aerobic organism | an | an existence | anaerobic organism | any | any one | article | atomic | autotrophic organism | being | body | cat | certain | chap | character | characteristic | concrete | connotative | creature | critter | customer | defined | definite | demonstrative | denominative | denotative | designative | detailed | determinate | diagnostic | different | discrete | distinct | distinctive | distinguished | duck | earthling | either | emblematic | entelechy | entity | esoteric | especial | evidential | exceptional | exclusive | exhibitive | existence | existent | express | expressive | extraordinary | fellow | figural | figurative | fixed | genetic individual | groundling | guy | hand | head | heterotrophic organism | homo | human | human being | identifying | ideographic | idiosyncratic | implicative | indicating | indicative | indicatory | individualistic | indivisible | inner | integer | integral | intimate | irreducible | item | joker | life | living being | living soul | living thing | lone | man | material | matter | meaningful | metaphorical | microbe | microorganism | minute | module | monad | monadic | monistic | morphological individual | mortal | naming | nose | noteworthy | object | one | ont | organic being | organism | organization | own | particular | party | pathognomonic | peculiar | person | persona | personage | personal | personality | physiological individual | point | precise | private | proper | representative | respective | semantic | semiotic | separate | several | signalizing | significant | significative | signifying | simple | single | singleton | singular | sole | solid | solipsistic | solitary | somebody | someone | something | soul | special | specific | stuff | substance | suggestive | symbolic | symbolistic | symbological | symptomatic | symptomatologic | tellurian | terran | thing | typical | unanalyzable | undivided | uniform | unique | unit | unitary | virus | whole | worldling | zooid | zoon

See Also | adult | adventurer | African | anatomy | anomaly | applicant | applied scientist | applier | appointee | appointment | beholder | being | being | bod | build | capitalist | captor | capturer | causal agency | causal agent | cause | changer | chassis | common man | common person | commoner | communicator | compeer | contestant | controversialist | coward | creator | denizen | disputant | dweller | engineer | entertainer | equal | experimenter | expert | face | female | female person | figure | flesh | forerunner | form | frame | grownup | head | human body | indigen | indigene | individualist | inexperienced person | inhabitant | innocent | intellect | intellectual | juvenile | juvenile person | leader | lover | male | male person | match | material body | modifier | money dealer | money handler | national | native | nonreligious person | nonworker | observer | organism | organism | peer | people | perceiver | percher | persona non grata | personality | physical body | physique | precursor | primitive | primitive person | religionist | religious person | self | sensualist | shape | soma | subject | technologist | traveler | traveller | unfortunate | unfortunate person | unskilled person | unusual person | unwelcome person | venturer | worker

Individual In Webster's Dictionary

\In`di*vid"u*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. individuus indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr. dividere to divide: cf. F. individuel. See {Divide}.] 1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. --A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. --Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
\In`di*vid"u*al\, n. 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. --Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. --Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. --Dryden. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

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