personalizing
personalizing is the present participle and gerund of personalize.
Meaning of personalize
Verb
personalize (third-person singular simple present personalizes, present participle personalizing, simple past and past participle personalized)
- To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
- These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of...1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19
- To represent something abstract as a person; to embody.
- To imbue something with one's personality.
- Gloria Hull, best known as a Black Feminist literary critic, expands and personalizes her examination of creative thought in her first collection of poetry, Healing Heart.1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “A Poet's Revolution Of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 7
Questions about personalizing
- What is personalizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Personalizing is the present participle and gerund of personalize.
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