individualism 
tinet or individual; subsistence as a distinct 
entity; individual character. 2. Individual- 
ity or independence in action; the principle of 
iK'tiiig according to one's own will or for one's 
own ends; individual as opposed to associate 
action or common intrivsts. 
The institution [communUm] provides that there shall 
be no .|iL;tn elliiiK alHiut material interests ; individualism 
IK excludi it from iliut department u( affairs. 
J. S. Mill, Socialism, p. 114. 
tin man progress has been by strong societies with a 
well developed social and public virtue. The excessive 
tlevelnpment of indiridnalimn within a society has been 
it* weakness and ruin. /;/<".. II, it.. XXII. 219. 
Hence 3. That theory of government which 
favors the non-interference of the state in the 
affairs of individuals : opposed to socialism or 
collccti figm. 
Socialism and imlividualimn are merely two contrary 
general principles, Ideals, or methods, which may be em- 
ployed to regulate the constitution of economical society. 
Itae, Contemporary socialism, p. 209. 
4. In logic: (11) The tendency to the doctrine 
that nothing is real but individual things. The 
doctrine Is, for example, that the laws of nature are not 
real, but only the things whose mode of behavior is for- 
mulated in these laws. 
Is such a more adequate philosophy to be found In the 
Idealistic individualism of Leibnitz 1 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 71. 
(6) The doctrine of pure egoism, or that no- 
thing exists but the individual self. 
individualist (in-di-vid'u-al-ist), . and a. fj= 
F. indii'idualistc = Sp". 'Pa. individualista ; as 
individual + -ist.] 'I. . One who accepts any 
theory or doctrine of individualism. 
The extremest individualist would shrink from destroy- 
ing government altogether, and repealing the whole of 
the criminal law. Westminster Rev., CXX VI. 148. 
II. a. Of or pertaining to individualism; in- 
dividualistic. 
The world has not been made on this Socialist principle 
nlone, nor on this individualint principle alone. 
Contemporary Rev., LIV. 380. 
Individualistic (in-di-vid"u-a-lis'tik), a. [< in- 
dividual + -ist-ic.] Of or pertaining to individ- 
ualism or to individualists. 
English socialism is individualistic, but tends toward a 
gradual elimination of the personal element from politics, 
industry, and commerce. S. A. Rev., CXX. 280. 
individuality (in-di-vid-u-al'i-ti), n. ; pi. indi- 
vidualities (-tiz). [= F. 'individualile = Sp. tn- 
dividualidad = Pg. indMdualidade = It. indi- 
ridualita, < ML. individnalita(t-)s, < individualis, 
individual: see individual and -ity.] 1. The 
condition or mode of being individual, (o) The 
being Individual in contradistinction to being general. (6) 
Existence independent of other things; that wliich makes 
the possession of characters by the subject a distinct fact 
from their possession by another subject M The unity of 
consciousness; the connection between all the different 
feelings and other modifications of consciousness which 
are present at any one instant of time. (<i) The simplicity 
of the soul ; the indivisible unity of the substance of the 
niiiulasltcxlstsatanyinstant. (e) Personality; the essen- 
tial characters of a person. [This use of the word, which 
has not a wide currency, tends to vagueness, owing to con- 
fusion with the meaning (/-). | 
According to Kant, It cannot be properly determined 
whether we exist as substance or as accident, because the 
datum of individuality is a condition of the possibility of 
our having thoughts and feelings. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xlx. 
Individuality, like personal Identity, belongs properly 
to intelligent and responsible beings. Consciousness re- 
veals It to us that no oeing can be put In our place, nor 
confounded with us, nor we with others. We are one and 
indivisible. Fleming, Vocab. of Philos. 
Any one of the myriads of millions of molecules might 
take the place of any other. But if each is considered as 
having some destiny to fulfill, some end to which It Is 
adapted, that end defines its iiulividuality. 
N. Porter, Human Intellect, 627. 
ladifidtinlity In Its highest form is not merely negative 
and exclusive, but also positive and inclusive; it is not 
merely the MBMetmaMn of a self In opposition to other 
thiiiKs and beings, but also the consciousness of a self In 
TvliiUon to and unity with them. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 80. 
2. The particular or distinctive character of an 
individual ; that quality, or aggregate of quali- 
ti> >. which distinguishes one person or thing 
from another; idiosyncrasy: as, a person of 
marked iwdfnduoftty, 
I have heretofore been proud of my individuality, and 
resisted, so far as one may, all the world's attempts to 
merge me in the mass. 
O. W. Curtit, Int. to Cecil Drecme, p. 2. 
3. A personality; :i personage ; an individual. 
[Rare.] 
. tiill figure and snow-white mustache make 
him une of the sinking individualities of the chamber, 
anil he lias In bis f:\ee the unmistakable look of a man of 
power and courage. Ilarirr's Hay., LXXVI. 1S3. 
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4. The existence, efforts, interests, or concerns 
of the individual as distinguished from the in- 
terests or concerns of the community. 
To them the will, the wish, the want, the liberty, the 
toil, the blood of Individuals Is as nothing. Individuality 
Is left out of their scheme of government. The atate is 
all In all. Burke, A Regicide Peace, 11. 
individualization (iu-di-vid'u-al-i-za'shon), n. 
[= F. indtvidualisation = Sp. individualtzacioti 
= Pg. individualisacffo.] The act of individu- 
alizing, or the state of being individualized. 
Also spelled individualisation. 
That minuteness of individualisation which we have no 
sufficient store of similars to entrap. 
Hodgson, Phil, of Betiectiou, II. v. 1 2. 
individualize (in-di-vid'u-al-iz), v. t. ; pret. and 
pp. individualized, ppr. individualizing. [= F. 
individualiser = Sp. individualizar = Pg. inrfi- 
vidualisar; as individual + -iz<:] 1. To note 
or consider separately or as individuals: as, 
careful observation individualizes the features 
of a landscape. 2. To stamp with individual 
character; give a distinctive character to; dis- 
tinguish: as, Carlyle's peculiar style strongly 
individualizes his works. 
Also spelled individualise. 
individualize!" (in-di-vid'u-al-i-zer), n. One 
who or that which individualizes. Also spelled 
individualiser. Imp. Diet. 
individually (in-di-vid'u-al-i), adv. 1. In an 
individual or distinctive manner; as individ- 
uals ; separately : as, apple-trees differ individ- 
ually, but not specifically; all were individually 
summoned. 
How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath 
no substance, but individually the very same whereby 
others subsist with it? Hooter, Eccles. Polity. 
2. Indivisibly; incommunicably. 
I dare not pronounce htm omnlscious, that being an 
attribute individually proper to the Godhead. 
Hakeunll, Apology. 
3. Personally; in an individual capacity, as 
distinguished from official or corporate capaci- 
ty. See individual, a., 3. 
individnand (in-di-yid'u-and), a. [< ML. iii- 
dividuandus, gerundive of individuare, individ- 
uate : see individuate.] In logic, capable of be- 
ing embodied in an individual; bringing a gen- 
eral form into individual existence Indlvldu- 
and nature, any general form or character constituting 
the essence of a species or other general class. 
individuant (in-di-vid'u-ant), a. [< ML. inili- 
viduan(t-)s, ppr. of individuare : see individu- 
ate.] Bringing a general form into individual 
existence. Individuant difference, a special form 
or individual difference, conceived as the principle of in 
dlvlduation. 
individuate (in-di-vid'u-at), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
individuated, ppr. individuating. [< ML. inai- 
riduatus, pp. of individuare (> It. individuare = 
Sp. Pg. individuar = F. individver), make indi- 
vidual, < L. individutu, individual : see individ- 
ual.] To make individual; give the character 
of individuality to; discriminate or mark as 
distinct; individualize. 
Two or more such aggregates, . . . well individuated 
by their forms and structures, are united together. 
B. Spencer, Prln. of Blol., { 185. 
The conception of the most complex matter and its 
manifold energies individuated as a living organism. 
Maudsley, Body and Will, p. is. 
individuate (in-di-vid'u-at), a. [< ML. indi- 
viduatus, pp.: see the verb.] If. Undivided; 
indivisible. 
O Thou, the third in that eternal trine, 
In individuate unity divine 1 
The Student (1751X II. 311. 
2. In metaph., rendered individual; brought 
down from the ideal world of forms to the 
world of individual existence ; individuated. 
See the wonder of beauty matched with the individuate 
[i. e., peculiar to this Individual) adjunct, unsoiled con- 
stancy. Ford, Honour Triumphant, iii. 
Individuate nature, a general form as it exists in an 
individual. 
individuation (in-di-vid-u-a'shon), . [= F. 
individuation = Sp. individuacion = Pg. indivi- 
duaCfSo = It. indiriduiizioiif, < ML. indiriilim- 
tio(n-), < individuate, individuate: see individ- 
uate.] 1. In metaph., the determination or 
contraction of a general nature to an indi- 
vidual mode of existence ; the development of 
the individual from the general. The principle of 
i'l'firiilvation is the (supposed) general cause of such 
transformation of the general into the individual Dur- 
ing the thirteenth and fourteenth eenturies there was 
much controversy among the scholastic philosophers as 
to what this principle may be, whether matter or form, 
or a peculiar and indescribable hrecceity. The difficulty 
has reappeared in later metaphysical thought, as In the 
philosophy of Schopenhauer ; it Is, Indeed, inherent in 
indlvulsively 
ever}' idealistic system which begins with thought, or the 
general, as the first principle. 
What Is the indinduation of the soul In the state of 
separation? Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 18S5), II. fii 
2. Separate or individual existence or indepen- 
dence; that by which such individuality is de- 
veloped and maintained. 
Grouping under the word Individuation all processes 
by which individual life Is completed and maintained, 
and enlarging the meaning of the word Genesis so as to 
Include all processes aiding the formation and perfecting 
of new Individuals, we see that the two are fundamen- 
tally opposed. H. Spencer, Prln. of Blol., | 827. 
individuator (in-di-vid'u-a-tor), n. One who 
or that which individuates. 
He Is composed of the same Individual matter, for it 
hath the same dlstlnguisher and indiriiluatfr, to wit, the 
same form or soul. 
Sir K. Digby, On Browne's Religto Medici. 
individuifyt (in-di-vid'u-i-fi), v. t. [< L. indi- 
viduug. individual, + -flcare, make: see -fy.] 
To individualize. 
The statute of additions was made In the first of King 
Henry the Fifth to i m/nn'i/u(/i> (as I may say) and separate 
persons from those of the same name. 
Fuller, General Worthies. 
individuityt (in'di-vi-du'i-ti), n. [= F. indi- 
viduit6 = Sp. (obs.) individuidad = It. indiri- 
il n it/i, < LL. individuita(t-)s, indivisibility, < L. 
i, nl i riil a us, indivisible: see indii-/iln/il.] Sepa- 
rate existence ; individual character. 
Zorobabel's Temple, acquiring by Herod's bounty more 
beauty and bigness, continued the same Temple, God's 
nnlntermltted service (the life and soul thereof) preserv- 
ing the iiulividuit'i or oneness of this Temple with the 
former. Fuller, Plsgah Sight, III. Iv. ( 6. 
indivinet (in-di-vm'), a. [< in- 3 + divine.] Un- 
godly; unholy. 
His brother Clarence (O crime capital! !) 
He did rebaptize in a butt of wine. 
Being jelous of him (how soere lolall) : 
A Turkish providence most indivinc. 
Danes, Microcosmos, p. ;>7. 
indivinityt (in-di-vin'j-ti), n. [= F. indirinite'; 
as in- 3 + divinity.] Lack of divinity or divine 
power. 
How openly did he [ Ammon] betray his indiviniln untn 
Croesus . . . [with] the excuse of his Impotency upon the 
contradiction of fate ! Sir T. Broime, Vulg. Err., I. 10. 
indivisibility (in-di-viz-i-bil'i-ti), H. [= F. inrfi- 
visibilite' = Sp. indirmbilidad = Pg. indivigibi- 
lidade = It. indivisibilita ; < indivisible + -ity.] 
The state or property of being indivisible. 
When I speak of indivisibility, that Imagination create 
not new troubles to herself, I mean not such an indivisi- 
bility as Is fancied In a mathematical point ; but as we 
conceive In a sphere of light made from one lucid point 
or radiant center. 
I'r. II. More, Antidote against Atheism, App., x. 
A pestle and mortar will as soon bring any particle of 
matter to indivisibility as the acutest thought of a mathe- 
matician. Locke. 
indivisible (in-di-viz ' i-bl), u. and n. [= F. 
indivisible = Pr. endivigible = Sp. indivisible = 
Pg. indivisivel = It. indivisibile, < LL. indivisibi- 
lis, not divisible, < in- priv. + dirisibilig, divisi- 
ble : see divisible.] I. a. Not divisible into parts 
or fragments; incapable of being divided, sep- 
arated, or broken ; inseparable. 
Let there be, therefore, betweene our selves and our 
subjects, an itidiuisible vnltie of friendship and peace, 
and safe trade of marchandise. Hakluyt's Voyages,!. 128. 
The right of sovereignty in all nations Is inalienable 
and indieitiUe. J. Adamt, Works, IV. 808. 
H. M. That which is indivisible ; specifically, 
in geoni., one of the elements, supposed to be 
infinitely small, into which a body or figure may 
be resolved. 
It Is not with evidences of fact as It is with logical or 
mathematical demonstrations, which seem to consist in 
indivisible*, for that which thus Is demonstratively true Is 
impossible to be false. 
Sir M. Hale, Orlg. of Mankind, p. 129. 
The method of indivisibles, a method of calculating 
areas, volumes, centers of gravity, etc., invented by Bona- 
ventnra Cavalier! in 1685, and more or less used until the 
invention of the integral calculus. It is a modification of 
the ancient method of exhaustions. 
indivisibleness (in-di-viz 'i-bl-nes), n. Indivisi- 
bility. 
indivisibly (in-di-viz'i-bli), adv. In an indi- 
visible manner; so as not to be capable of di- 
vision. 
indivision (in-di-vizh'on), w. [= OF. indivision 
= Sp. indivigion ; < L. in- priv. + divisio(n-), di- 
vision : see division.] The state of being undi- 
vided. [Rare.] 
I will take leave to maintain the indin*in of the Church 
of England In the dogmatical point of faith. ISp. Hall. 
indivulsivelyt (in-di-vul'siv-li), a dr. [< in-3 + 
ilinil.tiri + -li/~.] Inseparably; so as not to be 
torn or rent asunder. 
