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individuality

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of individuality

1 the set of qualities that make a person different from other people
  • Her individuality showed through in everything she did.
Synonyms of individuality

character, identity, individualism, personality, selfhood, self-identity
Words Related to individuality

distinctiveness, idiosyncrasy, oneness, peculiarity, separateness, singleness, singularity, uniqueness

disposition, humor, nature, temper, temperament

independence
Near Antonyms of individuality

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 of individuality

being, commodity, entity, existent, individual, integer, object, reality, something, substance, thing
Words Related to individuality

body, subject

material, matter, quantity, stuff
Near Antonyms of individuality

nonentity

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