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1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer. 2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an

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1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity. Arbuthnot. They possess separate individualities. H. Spencer. 2. The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • IDIOSYNCRASY
    A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • INDIVISIBILITY
    The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.
  • CONCORDANT
    Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
  • DISTINCTIVENESS
    State of being distinctive.
  • CONJUNCTIONAL
    Relating to a conjunction.
  • CONCORDANCY
    Agreement. W. Montagu.
  • ONENESS
    The state of being one; singleness in number; individuality; unity. Our God is one, or rather very oneness. Hooker.
  • DISTINCTION
    1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
  • SAMENESS
    1. The state of being the same, identity; abscence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." Bp. Horsley. 2. Hence, want of
  • SINGLENESS
    1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
  • SINGULARITY
    1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
  • UNITY
    Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity. Note: The number 1, when it
  • SPECIALITY
    See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale.
  • DIAGNOSIS
    The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. 2. Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
  • CONCORD
    Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case. (more info) same mind, agreeing; con- + cor, cordis, heart. See Heart, and cf. 1. A state of agreement; harmony; union. Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. Milton.
  • CONCORDABLE
    Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious.
  • CONCORDIST
    The compiler of a concordance.
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • INDISTINCTION
    Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
  • ALONENESS
    A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. Bp. Montagu.
  • JEJUNITY
    The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • TRIUNITY
    The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More.
  • TRINIUNITY
    Triunity; trinity. As for terms of trinity, triniunity, . . . and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions. Milton.
  • HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
    A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
  • DISCOMMUNITY
    A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.
  • CONTRADISTINCTION
    Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.

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