Word Finder - individuality

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The characteristics that contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.

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A person.

All their hymns, epics and histories were bound up with their individuality as a free people.

Moses was the first historic individuality who can be said to have welded the Israelite clans into a whole.

The evil spirit with his wicked hosts appears in the Gathas much less endowed with the attributes of personality and individuality than does Ahura Mazda.

Its own individuality is now the only or at least the supreme thing.

His lyrical poems are wanting in spontaneity and individuality, but many of them possess a simple, orderly charm, as of an English country lane.

Since the point is to express your individuality, why look like everyone else?

In theology, as in ecclesiastical polity, Hofmann was a Lutheran of an extreme type, although the strongly marked individuality of some of his opinions laid him open to repeated accusations of heterodoxy.

These shells do not retain their individuality at depths greater than 1400 or 1500 fathoms, and in fact pteropod ooze is only found in small patches on the ridges near the Azores, Antilles, Canaries, Sokotra, Nicobar, Fiji and the Paumotu islands, and on the central rise of the South Atlantic between Ascension and Tristan d'Acunha.

The universal is the real; it is that which gives coherence and individuality to the particulars of sense which apart from it are like the routed or disbanded units of an army.

Sir Michael, however, in a despatch dated September the 16th 1878, reiterated the intention of the British cabinet to grant the state " to the utmost practicable extent, its individuality and powers of self-government under the sovereignty of the queen."

If individuality depends in matter, must we not conclude with Averroes that individuality is extinguished at death, and that only the universal form survives ?

Gem stone wire wrapped jewelry is always highly unique and offers the wearer the opportunity to own a piece of jewelry expressing their own individuality.

All forms of monism from Plotinus downwards tend to ignore personal individuality and volition, and merge all finite existence in the featureless unity of the Absolute; this, indeed, is what inspires the passion of the protest against monism.

A one of a kind piece of jewelry helps to demonstrate your individuality and can make a dramatic statement.

A unique gemstone bracelet allows the wearer to demonstrate their individuality and style.

It is a special case of growth, and consists of an increase of living substance in such fashion that the new substance is either set free as a new individual, or, whilst remaining attached to the parent organism, separated by some sort of partition so as to have a subordinate individuality.

The barrack-square drill was smart under the old system, bUt there was no fire discipline, and all individuality was crushed.

A religion which subdues to itself a race with strongly marked individuality is always influenced in cultus and dogma by the previous views and tendencies of that race, to which it must in some measure accommodate itself.

A "Christ disputing with the Doctors" of the same period, in the Barberini Gallery at Rome, is recorded to have cost the painter only five days' labour, and is an unsatisfying and illcomposed congeries of heads and hands, both of such strenuous character and individuality as here and there to pass into caricature.

The overwhelming Liberal and Labour victory at the general election of 1906 began a new era in the fortunes of the party, and Lord Rosebery's individuality once more sank back from any position of prominence in regard to its new programme.

One aspect of organic individuality is the correlation of variations, the fact that when one part varies, other parts vary more or less simultaneously.

He showed his versatility in landscape, as in his "Whins in Bloom," which combined great breadth with fine detail; in flower-pieces, such as his "Roses," which were brilliant in rapid suggestiveness and force; but most of all in his portraits, which are marked by great individuality, and by fine insight into character.

Union with the unpleasant, separation from the pleasant, unsatisfied craving, are each a result of individuality.

To these spirits is attributed a Being without Becoming, an individuality without change, a beginning without an end.

Logic does not come in contact with things, except as they are subject to modification by intellectual forms. In other words, universality, individuality and speciality are all equally modes of our comprehension or notion; their meaning consists in their setting forth the relations attaching to any object of our conception.

I will strive to achieve individuality in every project we do.

Each of the branches has its own individuality, reflecting the skills of the staff.

Along with a full share of border individuality and restlessness they had the usual boisterous boastfulness and a racial contempt, which was arrogantly proclaimed, for Mexicans, - often too for Mexican legal formalities.

Castle cakes give couples the opportunity to showcase their individuality and personalities at a reception.

They are at a stage in life when they are ready to express their individuality and independence.

Finally, a girl with a strong sense of her individuality and style may want to express that through clothing - and it's hard to feel like an individual when there are twenty other versions of the same dress on a rack.

If your little girl loves to stand out and display her individuality every chance she gets, she'll probably love the selection of brightly colored, striped and wildly patterned pajamas you'll find here.

Perfect for transitional weather, the pants include frog buttons on the legs, feature a zipper fly, and can be worn in a number of different ways to express individuality.

Until that point, a well-dressed woman would only be seen wearing fine jewelry, but Chanel showed that a woman could be fashionably dressed and express her individuality with fun, faux jewels as well.

When you are seeking jewelry that emphasizes your individuality then Pandora Jewelry is certainly worth considering.

Be sure to express your own individuality and let loose in the creative department if you truly want a punk style that defines your own style.

A Mudd watch is a great way to express your individuality.

There are three stadia, or moments, in this process of nature - (i) the mechanical moment, or matter devoid of individuality; (2) the physical moment, or matter which has particularized itself in bodies - the solar system; and (3) the organic moment, or organic beings, beginning with the geological organism - or the mineral kingdom, plants and animals.

From the time of Socrates in unbroken succession up to the reign of Hadrian, the school was represented by men of strong individuality.

Those who had been scattered from Palestine lived in small colonies, sometimes mingling and intermarrying with the natives, sometimes strictly preserving their own individuality.

The legs, wings and other organs of the trunk receive their nerves from the thoracic and abdominal ganglia, and the fusion of several pairs of these ganglia may be regarded as corresponding to a centralization of individuality.

But unlike some sovereigns, whose reigns have been agitated, but whose personal character has left little trace, Maria Theresa had a strong and in the main a noble individuality.

Zooids possessing a high degree of individuality.

But some of her great successes during the 'eighties and early 'nineties - the days of her chief triumphs - were in Italian versions of such plays as La Dame aux camelias, in which Sarah Bernhardt was already famous; and Madame Duse's reputation as an actress was founded less on her "creations" than on her magnificent individuality.

During the last century and a half before the Christian era, the school, as it might be called, began to break up and to lose its individuality.

It has been found unworkable, for instance, to classify the religions of really primitive peoples under a plurality of heads, as becomes necessary the moment that the presence of a distinctive basis of linked ideas testifies to the individuality of this or that type of higher creed.

His letters are in a simple conversational style, but they lack the popular locutions, humour and individuality of those of Mello.

Though these enactments still left some autonomy to Bohemia, the country gradually lost all individuality.

These tagmata may again be subdivided into groups preserving a more or less marked individuality.

Everything which contributed to the formation of a free, impassioned, liberal individuality he regarded as praiseworthy.