individuality

individuality

noun

Definition of INDIVIDUALITY

1

the set of qualities that make a person different from other people <her individuality showed through in everything she did>

Synonyms character, identity, individualism, personality, selfhood, self-identity

Related Words distinctiveness, idiosyncrasy, oneness, peculiarity, separateness, singleness, singularity, uniqueness; disposition, humor, nature, temper, temperament; independence

Near Antonyms conformity, conventionality

2

one that has a real and independent existence <according to immanentism, God is not so much an individuality as an abstract mind or spirit that pervades the world>

Synonyms being, commodity, existent, individual, individuality, integer, object, reality, something, substance, thing

Related Words body, subject; material, matter, quantity, stuff

Near Antonyms nonentity