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individualness

individualness noun: quality of being individual.

Noun

individualness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being individual.
    • He insisted on the primacy of his literary interests over his potential, social, etc interests; he insisted on the autarchy of his own temperament and taste, in ways that made the two together express a passionate individualness.1968, Terry Eagleton, Brian Wicker, From culture to revolution; the Slant Symposium, 1967, page 88
    • "We had a clear philosophy from Day One, which was that we wanted to maintain the individualness, the uniqueness of each product, and yet we wanted to realize, in effect, some of the back-office synergies of the merger," Fain explained.1998, Cruise Travel, volume 19, number 6, page 31

Origin of individualness

From individual + -ness.

Questions about individualness

What does individualness mean?
Individualness means quality of being individual.
What part of speech is individualness?
Individualness is a noun.

Words near individualness in the dictionary

  1. individualizing
  2. individualizingly
  3. individuall
  4. individualls
  5. individually
  6. individualness
  7. individuals
  8. individuatability
  9. individuatable
  10. individuate
  11. individuateable

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