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Individuality vs Individuation - What's the difference?

individuality | individuation |

As nouns the difference between individuality and individuation

is that individuality is (uncountable) the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity while individuation is the process of individuating or individualizing.

individuality

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (countable)  A person.
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  • individuation

    Noun

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  • The process of individuating or individualizing.
  • (philosophy) The distinction of the individual from the general or universal.
  • (biology) The differentiation of tissues.