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Definition: Individual |
IndividualAdjective1. Being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways". 2. Separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis". 3. Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "separate rooms"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed". 4. Concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath". Noun1. A human being; "there was too much for one person to do". 2. A single organism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "individual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Statistics | In statistical usage the term population is applied to any finite or infinite collection of individuals. Source: European Union. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Individual. This word should not be used broadly in the sense of a person, but should always convey some thought of a single thing or person, as opposed to many. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In metaphysics, the word individual, while sometimes meaning "a person", more typically describes any numerically singular thing. Used in many contexts, both 'Socrates' and 'the Moon' denote individuals; 'grapefruit' and 'redness' (at least often) do not. 'Individual' as a piece of philosophical jargon is much-bandied and often to be found in the company of particular -- indeed, often treated as synonymous with 'particular' (though one wonders if abstract particulars can count as individuals) -- and contrasted with 'universal'.
A famous work on individuals and their individuation is by P. F. Strawson: Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1959; New York: Anchor, 1963).
In everyday life an individual is some collection of thoughts and deeds that is considered an entity. Many people consider an individual responsible for its actions.
What collection of thoughts and deeds is considered an individual depends on perspective. For example, the thoughts and deeds of one body may be considered one individual.
However, it happens that after accidents and illnesses that caused brain damage, the thoughts and deeds from one body become so drastically different that many people don't feel that that body holds the same individual.
Some people talk about elderly people or handicapped or ill or poor people without the slightest regard of the risk that they may meet the same fate. They are right about that if they have a time-limited perspective on individuality. They consider the elderly, handicapped, ill or poor individual that may later occupy their body to be someone else.
In the past, persons were not considered responsible for the damage they caused while drunk. Apparently, in the drunk state, the body was considered not to hold the same individual as in the sober state.
One may assume that momentary madness can happen to everyone (something like a computer crash). The normal individual is considered absent from the body during that state of madness, and therefore not responsible. (Compare with temporary insanity and automatism).
For example, in 1795 in England, a young woman who had taken good care of her ill mother for many years, suddenly killed her. It was considered that a momentary madness was caused by severe fatigue from her hard work. Especially the days before the awful event had been very hard, because of her mother's condition. The woman was not prosecuted. She later married and had children and never committed any crime.
In 1999 in the Netherlands, a young mother put her baby in the microwave instead of the baby's milk. The death of the baby was considered to be caused by a very unfortunate blackout. The mother was considered absent from the body when it happened. She was not prosecuted, but comforted for her loss.
- See also: Identity, Individualism, consciousness, absent seizure
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Individual."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Individual capital refers to inalienable or personal traits of persons, tied to their bodies and available only through their own free will, such as skill, creativity, enterprise, courage, capacity for moral example, non-communicable wisdom, invention or empathy, non-transferable personal trust and leadership.It was recognized as an intangible quality of persons in economics back to at least Adam Smith. He distincted it (as "enterprise") from labour (economics) which can be coerced and is usually seen as strictly imitative (learned or transmitted, via such means as apprenticeship).
Marxist economics refers instead to "an individuals social capital - individuals are sources neither of creativity and innovation, nor management skill. A problem with that analysis is that it simply cannot explain the substitution problem and lack of demand that occurs when, for instance, an understudy takes on a leading role, or a second author takes over writing a popular book series. At the very least there must be some conditional, if not firm-specific then "class specific, special ability to command premiums for outstanding personal performance.
Neoclassical economics by contrast refers to "the individual in whom the human capital is ... embedded", which implies a strong association of the individual with the instructional capital they learn from, with little or no social capital influence. This is orthogonal to the Marxist view, but not necessarily opposed.
Human development theory reflects both distinctions: it sees labour as the yield of individual capital in the same way that neoclassical macro-economics sees financial capital as the yield of the looser idea of human capital. But the rest problem and social welfare function selection, as well as the subjective factors in behavioral finance, has led to a closer analysis of factors of production. In effect, the financial architecture is no longer trusted as an arbiter of the value of life as it was in neoclassical economics. Money is not seen as values-neutral, but as embodying a set of larger social choices about money supply rules, made by measuring well-being of whole populations.
Fusions of terminology are common. Sociological analysts refer to "individual-level elements of social capital" or "an individual's social capital" or just "individual social capital" while economic analysts often use the phrase firm-specific human capital. In either case the clearly includes individual capital but also some "activity-", "community-" or "firm-specific" social capital (community trust) and instructional capital (sharable knowledge or skills). This is easy to measure: its yield is your salary in your current job.
To the degree this is consistent if you take other work nearby, this opens the questions of what is not "firm-specific" and whether a nation is just a bigger "firm": Some analyses see political capital, or just "influence" or "trust of professionals" as a full style of capital of its own. Some ethicists, most clearly Jane Jacobs, see this as simple corruption. Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cash value, involves some creativity to arrange, and is a decision factor. It is a skill like any other.
Perhaps because of this, not all theorists recognize individual capital as being as essential as labour, or distinct from social or political influence, or from instructional capacity. These theorists often refer to "intellectual capital", which more properly describes a debate or locus of complexity that arises when individuals take key instructional roles. Some refer to celebrity as another fusion, when individuals take key social roles.
Those who differentiate individual capital tend to see it as something that one can invest in, directly, and see grow, directly. For individual skill, even skill at a highly imitative enterprise, like sports or mastery of a musical instrument, this is very often quite measurable. Many enterprises, for instance, a music conservatory or circus school or creative writing coach, are clearly making a living on the identification and (somewhat) measurable enhancement of the individual.
External links
- Capital: Volume Two
- Capital: Volume Three
- Proposals for the measurement of individual social capital
- "individual-level elements of social capital"
- "an individual's social capital"
- intellectual capital accounts - "individual capital and structural capital ... described to explain the future profitability and growth of the company"
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Individual capital."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| IN | English | Individual Network | Computer - (org., ISP) |
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Synonyms: IndividualSynonyms: case-by-case (adj), individual(a) (adj), item-by-item (adj), private (adj), separate (adj), single(a) (adj), human (n), mortal (n), person (n), somebody (n), someone (n), soul (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: common (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Adjective: indicating; Verb:, indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual; (special). |
Mankind | Human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae; quidam. |
Adjective: human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social; cosmopolitan; anthropoid. | |
Speciality | Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical. |
Unity | One, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other. |
Adjective: one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless. | |
Whole | Adjective: whole, total, integral, entire; complete; one, individual. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Individual |
| Specialty definitions using "individual": Individual Accountability, individual nuclear, biological and chemical protection, individual nuclear,biologic and chemical protection, individual registered ♦ MPEG-4 Harmonics, individual lines and noise. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "individual": Private. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Individual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (individual, individualistic, separate, several, special), Catalan (single), German (individual), Papiamen (individual), Portuguese (individual, one-to-one, personal, private, single), Portuguese Brazilian (individual), Romanian (distinct, individual, individually, particular, particularly, personal, private, several, severally, single, substantive), Spanish (individual, one-man, one-woman, personal, several, single, singles). |
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Screenplays | You are the weakest individual I ever know (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; writing credit: Earl Mac Rauch) Would you be surprised to know that this rough, tough individual was wearing pink sutton undies under his rough exteriour clothing (Glen or Glenda; writing credit: Edward D. Wood Jr.) Rest enough for the individual man -- too much, and too soon -- and we call it death (Things to Come; writing credit: H.G. Wells) Yes! The individual human mind (Inherit the Wind; writing credit: Jerome Lawrence; Robert E. Lee) It's not named for each individual man. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | Smooth and individual (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) His creation had talent far surpassing the average individual. (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) | |
Clever | No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast, demonstrating marked enhancement (bright area) which was confirmed to be cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Color-enhanced slide shows magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Individual egg of Aedes aegypti mosquito. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Note the struts and perforations of the individual scale. This helps to promote heightened aerodynamic lift during the insect's flight, as well as reduce the weight of the wing mechanism. Credit: CDC. |
 | By pinpointing individual suns in the glare of the most tightly packed cluster of stars in our ... Credit: NASA. |  | Global images taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2on the Hubble Space Telescope. The top image is the Valles Marineris region(centered on roughly 60 degrees longitude), the middle image is the Tharsis region(centered on roughly 160 degrees longitude), and the bottom image is theSyrtis Major region (centered on roughly 270 degrees longitude).These three images are individual frames from one press release photograph. Credit: NASA. |
 | Individual frames for each of the six planets imaged, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Credit: NASA. |  | Humpback whale's - Megaptera novaeangliae - tail - distinctive markings allow identification of individual. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | A more reasonable individual than helicopter pilots. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Tera1" by Lauri Hannus Commentary: "An individual radiator painted by light." | "Fireworks Collage 1" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "This is a collage of 9 individual shots. Free to use for any purpose, however I would appreciate credit for the photo. <br> <br>©2003Peter E. Leonard Photo used at: www.topatowerclub.com/ .. (September 11, 2003)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Appius Claudius | Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. |
Channing | The great hope of society is in individual character. |
Junius | The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. |
Max Stirner | The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. |
Mikhail A. Bakunin | Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. |
Oscar Wilde | The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. |
Theodore Parker | Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. |
Thomas Paine | No extraordinary power should be lodged in any one individual. |
Walt Whitman | The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And he certainly can have no absolute power over the whole family, who has but a very limited one over every individual in it. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Debtor Clearing Office will therefore credit the Creditor Clearing Office with all debts admitted, even in case of inability to collect them from the individual debtor. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are very powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Where the individual answers some questions during in-custody interrogation, he has not waived his privilege, and may invoke his right to remain silent thereafter. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I would not dream of applying the term to any individual. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The high estimation then placed upon the military character might be seen in the lofty port of each individual member of the company |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Now it was the turn of the individual, who was robbing him by retail |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It shocked him to find in the outer world a trace of what he had deemed till then a brutish and individual malady of his own mind |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | By mid adulthood, the individual is usually blind. (references) | |
Much like fingerprints, MHAs are unique to an individual. (references) | ||
Instead, a faulty gene first occurs in the affected individual. (references) | ||
Business | These are assessed by TGA on an individual basis. (references) | |
Most individual farms are still on family-size plots. (references) | ||
They have not, however, refused to bargain as individual enterprises. (references) | ||
Children | Morocco | It is possible for an individual to self-register, but the process is long and cumbersome. (references) |
Costa Rica | Nonetheless, a number of public and private institutions have made individual efforts to improve access. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | The lack of financial resources has also led to teacher strikes in the RS and in individual cantons in the Federation. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Burma | This was followed by direct pressure on individual NLD members. (references) |
Switzerland | In all cantons, an individual may choose not to contribute to church funding. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Considerable local autonomy in religious matters resides in the individual emirates. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | For individual businesses, an I.D. is needed. (references) |
Hungary | Hungary has high individual income tax levels. (references) | |
Burma | The term "person" means an individual or entity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malaysia | The other individual was released without conditions. (references) |
El Salvador | There still was overcrowding in individual facilities. (references) | |
Germany | In cases of acquittal, the Government must compensate the individual. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | Amendments were drafted to enable Orang Asli to hold titles on an individual basis. (references) |
Sweden | Some Sami state that they face discrimination in housing and employment on an individual basis, particularly in the southern mountain regions. (references) | |
Philippines | It awards such "ancestral domain lands" on the basis of communal rather than individual ownership, impeding sale of the lands by tribal leaders. (references) | |
Minorities | Austria | The Church of Scientology has reported problems obtaining credit cards, and individual Scientologists have experienced discrimination in hiring. (references) |
Belgium | Belgium is a pluralistic society in which individual differences in general are respected, and linguistic rights in particular generally are protected. (references) | |
Nigeria | Traditional linkages continued to impose considerable pressure on individual government officials to favor their own ethnic groups for important positions and patronage. (references) | |
Political Economy | HAITI | The labor code governs individual employment contracts. (references) |
MOROCCO | Changes in the rates of individual currencies reflect changes in cross rates. (references) | |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | The federal budget is largely derived from transfers from the individual emirates. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kazakhstan | Final totals in the parliamentary vote of confidence were made public, but not the votes of individual members. (references) |
East Timor | The CNRT disbanded later in the year, when its members left the organization as the elections approached to campaign for their individual parties. (references) | |
Morocco | In order to develop reforms, the King has granted cabinet ministers a greater degree of responsibility for the management of their individual portfolios. (references) | |
Trade | Romania | The license may be individual or general. (references) |
Greece | Methods of payment are subject to individual agreements. (references) | |
Morocco | Customs may authorize entry of goods on an individual basis. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | These services are generally considered safer and more reliable than individual taxis. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Hours may vary considerably depending on the preference of the individual businessperson. (references) | |
Ukraine | Metro tokens can be purchased at individual stations; monthly passes at transportation kiosks. (references) | |
Women | Gambia | Sexual harassment is not believed to be widespread, although individual instances have been noted. (references) |
Syria | The Syrian Women's Federation offers services to battered wives to remedy individual family problems. (references) | |
Nigeria | While some women have made considerable individual progress both in the academic and business world, women remain underprivileged. (references) | |
Worker Rights | India | The NHRC also intervened in individual cases. (references) |
Latvia | While not widespread, discrimination occurs within individual companies. (references) | |
Guatemala | The fines varied depending on the income level of the individual convicted. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Cary Goldstein | I believe so. Robert Blake is a wealthy individual. He's a celebrity, although maybe at this point one might consider him a minor celebrity. And we've seen that celebrities and wealthy people in this country have been getting away with murder. |
Dennis Miller | Look, all religion has done is to jump-start a grudge war over it's individual beliefs and at least in casinos everyone can get along, have a few drinks, play a little Black Jack and forget their problems. |
Donald Rumsfeld | OK, but, first of all, I don't agree with the premise. And second, I think that there may be an individual or two who feel that way, but I think that's not the consensus at all. |
Jesse Ventura | Well, I find that steps over the boundary, I think, of the public-private sector in a lot of ways. I think that, you know, it should be more left up to the individual establishment to determine whether they want smokers or don't. |
Nancy Grace | Interesting, because you're sending a letter to a private individual, but they've also faxed it. And don't tell me they can't trace where that fax came from, private or public. You can just trot on down to the Kinko's and get the fax number. |
Rush Limbaugh | What Jay didn't understand was just how different the nation was at our founding, and how individual states feared a Church of England-type national religion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | In a government bottomed on the will of all the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing could be gained by it even if each individual who contributed a portion of the tax could receive back promptly the same portion. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Through liberation from widespread poverty we have reached a higher degree of individual freedom than ever before. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Of course there are cases of individual hardship in retention of personnel in the service. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Yet neither great weapons nor individual courage can provide the conditions of peace. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But just as important is the role that each and every one of us must play, as an individual and as a member of his own community. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | It's an achievement that belongs to every individual American. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Thirteen individual bills, on time and fully reviewed by Congress. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our individual dreams must be realized by our common efforts. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Individual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 72.88% of the time. "Individual" is used about 13,278 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 72.88% | 9,677 | 981 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.95% | 3,578 | 2,717 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.17% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13,278 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Individual Investor Group, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "individual": Galton's individual difference problem ♦ guarantee of individual liberties ♦ individual account ♦ individual air outlet ♦ individual case ♦ individual construction ♦ individual credit ♦ individual dose ♦ individual drive ♦ individual farm ♦ individual financing ♦ individual fire ♦ individual freedom ♦ individual liberty ♦ individual medley ♦ individual nuclear,biologic and chemical protection ♦ individual peasant ♦ individual proprietorship ♦ individual protective equipment ♦ individual quick frozen ♦ individual registered ♦ individual retirement account ♦ individual shovel ♦ individual sport ♦ individual style ♦ individual training ♦ individual value ♦ on an individual basis ♦ private individual ♦ worthless individual. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "individual": individual-based, individual-centred, individual-characteristic, individual-consultant, individual-job, individual-minded, individual-oriented, individual-project, individual-related. | |
Ending with "individual": multi-individual, supra-individual. | |
Containing "individual": non-individual-human. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "individual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | persoonlik (personal), individueel. (various references) | |
Albanian | individual (individualistic, separate, several, special), individ (person), i veçuar (dangling, detached, isolated, lonely, out of the way, retired, secluded, segregate, separate, several, single), i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, queer, racy, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), vetjak (own), personal (esoteric, interior, nominal, nominative, one-man, personal, personalized, private, several), person (beggar, body, case, chap, contact, dude, fella, fellow, fish, flesh and blood, guy, hand, party, person, persona, personage, piece, subject). (various references) | |
Arabic | فذ (alone, incomparable, matchless, nonesuch, peerless, single, singular, unequaled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unusual), فريد (matchless, peerless, single, singular, unique, unparalleled, unrivaled), فردي (personal, single, singular, solitary, solo), فرد (allow, consign, demarcation, design, isolate, one, person, personage, seclude, single, sole), ذو شخصية مميزة, خصوصي (characteristic, confidential, exclusive, particular, peculiar, personal, private, special, specific), خاص (ad hoc, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, proper, relative, special, specific), إفرادي (distributive), إنسان بشر أو شخص (human, human being), شخصي (particular, private, singular, subjective), شخص (baby, bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, joker, man, person, personate, scout, sort, specimen, spirit, stick). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | същество (being, entity, thing), субект (joker, person, subject), собствен (independent, own, peculiar, proper), самобитен (original, substantive), човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, homo, human, human being, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you), особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, odd, original, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, strange, uncommon), отделен (detached, discrete, disjunct, distinct, divided, independent, insular, lone, odd, particular, self contained, separate, several, single, singular, solitary, stray, unattached), единичен (one track, particular, several, single, sporadic, stray), личен (finite, intimate, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, subjective), лице (appearance, bod, countenance, face, features, figurehead, front, front view, frontage, kisser, map, person, persona, personage, physiognomy, puss, sentry, visage), индивидуален (particular, several), индивид (individuality, party, person). (various references) | |
Catalan | individu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 個體 , 個人 (oneself, personal), 個別 (respective, respectively), 個 , 单独 (alone). (various references) | |
Czech | individuum (chap), individuální (distinctive, one off, one-to-one), zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, funny, intriguing, odd, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, strange, unique, weird), osobní (passenger, personal), osoba (head, man, person), jednotlivec, jednotlivý (component, odd, particular, separate, single), jedinec, existence (being, existence, subsistence). (various references) | |
Danish | individuel (singular). (various references) | |
Dutch | individueel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | individuo, individua. (various references) | |
Faeroese | einstaklingur. (various references) | |
Farsi | فرد (Azygos, Odd, Single, Singular, Specimen, Subject, Unique, Unit), منحصربفرد (Exclusive, Particular, Sole), متعلق بفرد, تک (Attack, Azygos, Lone, Odd, One, Particular, Segregate, Single, Singular, Solitaire, Solo), شخص (Cove, Dude, Figure, Guy, Man, One, Person, Specimen, Subject). (various references) | |
Finnish | yksilö (copy). (various references) | |
French | individu, individuel. (various references) | |
Frisian | yndividueel, yndividu. (various references) | |
Galician | individuais. (various references) | |
German | individuell (distinct, indivdual, individually, particular), Individuum (person). (various references) | |
Greek | άτομο (atom, person). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יחידני, פרטי (particular, private), פרטני, פרט (detail, item, particular, unit), אישי (personal, private, subjective), אדם (human being, humanity, man, mankind, person). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyéni (especial, particular, personal, private, several, subjective, substantive), egyén (beggar, bulldozer, number, person, pervert). (various references) | |
Icelandic | einstaklingur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | individu, tersendiri (alone, special). (various references) | |
Italian | individuale (one-man, single), singolo (discrete, only, single, singles, singly, solitary, unique), individuo (beggar, bloke, chap, fellow, guy, head, self). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 個々 (one by one), 単一 (simple, single, sole, unitory), インディア紙 (an Indian, independent, India paper, individualism, individualist), 各自 (each), 各自 (each), 個 (article counter, counter for mil. units), 一個人 (private person), 個個人 , 銘銘 (each), 個性的 (personal), 個人 (personal, private, private person), 個人個人 (one by one), 個人 (private person), 箇箇 (separate), 銘々 (each), 個個 (one by one). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんいつ (simple, single, sole, unitory), かくじ (each), いっこじん (private person), いちこじん (private person), こせいてき (personal), ここじん (an individual), ここ (cry of a baby at its birth, each house, every house, here, one by one, separate, this place), こじんこじん (one by one), こじん (ancient people, old friend, personal, private, private person, the deceased), こ (arc, big, business, child, counter for houses, counter for mil. units, crime, fault, great, large, old, price, selling, sin, the late, the young of animals), めいめい (christening, dark, divine, each, invisible, naming), インディビジュアル . (various references) | |
Korean | 개인 (one-man, Personal, Private). (various references) | |
Manx | reggyr, persoon (being, person, personage), neurheynnagh (indistributable), fer (bloke, chap, fellow, gentleman, male, man). (various references) | |
Norwegian | individ. (various references) | |
Papiamen | individuo, individual. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | individualay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | individual (one-to-one, personal, private, single), pessoa (being, customer, head, man, person, persona, poll, selfhood, subject, wight), indivíduo (anybody, beggar, bloke, busybody, chap, civy, customer, fellow, joker, josser, lad, laddie, lazarus, man, poll, selfhood, specimen, subject). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | individual. (various references) | |
Romanian | individualitate (individuality, particularity, personality, self), individual (distinct, individually, particular, particularly, personal, private, several, severally, single, substantive), individ (bird, bloke, body, character, cove, cuss, customer, devil, dog, egg, fellow, guy, individuality, man, merchant, odd fish, party, perisher, person, queer fish, self, specimen, strange fish, subject, Wight), specific (appropriate, distinctive, note, peculiar, proper, quiddity, singularity, specific, specifically), personalitate (anybody, figure, individuality, keyman, name, notable, originality, person, personage, personality, self, somebody), personal (by oneself, individually, original, own, particular, peculiarly, personal, personally, personnel, private, staff), persoanã (body, crackajack, cuss, head, man, party, person, self, soul, subject), om (fellow, human, husband, Jack, male, man, my man, person, somebody, soul, spouse, subject). (various references) | |
Russian | особенный (especial, particular, peculiar), отдельный (detached, discrete, distinct, dividual, isolated, peculiar, scattered, segregate, separate, several, single, stand-alone), личный (personal, private), личность индивидуальный, личность (bod 1, character, identity, person, personality, selfhood), индивидуум (individuals), индивидуальный (particular, peculiar). (various references) | |
Scottish | té (a woman, nf.ind. an individual person or thing whose name is of the), neach (any person, anyone, individual : neach air bith). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | individualan (unitary), individua, zaseban (extra, self contained, separate), pojedinac (person), pojedinačan (several, simple, single, unit), ličnost (character, figure, person, personality), ličan (personal, prejudiced, private, subjective). (various references) | |
Spanish | individuo (bird, bloke, guy, party, perisher, single), individual (one-man, one-woman, personal, several, single, singles). (various references) | |
Swedish | individuell, individ (character, cuss, customer, party, type), enskild (personal, private, separate, specific, unadopted), personlig (personal, person-to-person). (various references) | |
Turkish | tek (exclusive, fellow, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, lone, mono-, odd, one, one and only, only, single, singular, sole, solitary, uneven, uni-, unique), kişisel (closet, intimate, personal, private, self, singular), kişi (cad, head, person, persona, poll, self, soul, Wallah, Wight), fert, bireysel (individualistic, separate, singular), birey (person), birbirinden ayrı (asunder), başlıbaşına (out and out), şahsi (closet, personal, private, proprietary, self), şahıs (figure, natural person, party, person), özgün (characteristic, distinctive, genuine, inventive, peculiar, typical, unique, way out), özel (ad hoc, closet, distinctive, esoteric, especial, exclusive, express, extraordinary, intimate, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, proper, proprietary, self, sole, special, specific, state, very). (various references) | |
Turkmen | January (life). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | індівідуум, індивідуальний, характерний (characteristic, definitive, differential, distinctive, racy, representative), особа (body, person), особистість (name, person, personality, self), особистий (interior, peculiar, personal, private, several, subjective), окремий (detached, discriminate, distinct, especial, isolated, particular, partitive, private, self contained, separate, single). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | riêng lẻ (individually), riêng biệt (characteristic, discrete, individually, segregate, severally, special, specially, specifically), riêng (characteristic, corporal, distinct, peculiar, private, privy, sui generis), cá nhân độc đáo, cá nhân (individually, personal), đặc biệt (distinguished, especial, exceptional, extra, particular, particularly, racy, ripping, scrumptious, special, specially, topping). (various references) | |
Welsh | unigol (singular). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | didli. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | individuus, propria, propriae, propriam, proprias, proprie, proprii, propriis, proprio, proprium, proprius, singula, singulae, singularum, singulas, singuli, singulis, singulisque, singulorum, singulos, singulus, specialis, specialissimus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "individual": individualise, individualised, individualises, individualising, individualism, individualisms, individualist, individualistic, individualistically, individualists, individualities, individuality, individualization, individualizations, individualize, individualized, individualizes, individualizing, individually, individuals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "individual": interindividual, nonindividual, superindividual. (additional references) | |
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"Individual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indivdual, individuel, individule, indivisual, indiviudal, indvidual, inidividual, inidvidual. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "individual" (pronounced i'nduvi"juwul) |
| 4 | -u w u l | actual, casual, heterosexual, homosexual, spiritual, textual, mutual, perceptual, semiannual, sensual, unusual, usual, visual. |
| 3 | -w u l | bilingual, coequal, equal, monolingual, multilingual, sequel, tranquil, unequal. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-i-i-i-l-n-u-v" | |
-2 letters: diluvian, dividual. | |
-3 letters: diluvia, invalid. | |
-4 letters: avidin, inlaid, unlaid. | |
-5 letters: anvil, divan, dulia, iliad, livid, nidal, nival, ulnad, undid, valid, viand, vinal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-i-i-i-l-n-u-v" | |
+1 letter: individuals. | |
+2 letters: individually. | |
+3 letters: individualise, individualism, individualist, individuality, individualize, nonindividual. | |
+4 letters: individualised, individualises, individualisms, individualists, individualized, individualizes. | |
+5 letters: individualising, individualistic, individualities, individualizing, interindividual, superindividual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Abbreviations | 21. Acronyms 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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