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individualization

individualization

7.7
Seeing one person or thing as different from others
  • noun
  • /ˌɪndɪvɪdʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : individualización
  • Such individualization is proactive in nature and emphasizes the importance of working with student affinities (Levine, 1994).
  • the process of individualization

We're visualizing the first individualization of humans across all the people that I have on this thing.

Examples

  • While liberal ideology justified the individualization of personal life—along with the privatization of land—Totonac-speaking cultivators projected spatial relationships that encompassed life, land, community, and religion.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The salient point is that in the Mexican counterreform, what was a family resource (el patrimonio familiar) has given way to a process of individualization of land rights that has largely excluded women.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Our mass individualization of of the self is constantly restricted by our comparison to other people.

  • We're visualizing the first individualization of humans across all the people that I have on this thing.

  • Inclusion is a form of individualization and need not mean one-on-one instruction.

    Academic text (1995)
  • A more common feature of the neoliberal counterreforms has been privatization, or the individualization of land rights.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Married women will not be participating in this crucial decision-making process on the future of their communities, and if the individualization of land rights takes place, women may see the family usufruct parcel transformed into male private property.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The theory posited the disorganization and replacement of traditional society by modernization with its accompanying urbanization, industrialization, and individualization of persons.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The individualization of student assignments allows each learner to pursue their own interests and strengths.

  • In therapy, individualization helps to tailor treatment plans that address a person's unique challenges.

Synonyms

personalization
vsindividualization
  • US
8 4.2

Making something special for one person based on their needs or interests

concerns recognizing someone as separate rather than tailoring things for one person
individuation
vsindividualization
  • Specialized
2 8.6

Becoming a person who has their own clear identity separate from others

is about recognizing someone as separate from a group or species
singularization
vsindividualization
8.9

An act that makes someone or something stand out from others

focuses on recognizing someone as separate from a group or species

Antonyms

Making things follow the same rules so they match

Seeing the same pattern in many examples helps form a general rule

How Distinct

identification
107 3.1
individualization
  • Specialized
7.7
grouping
20 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

individualization = individualize (transparent) = individual + ize + ation

The noun is a standard and readily interpretable action/state formation from the verb 'individualize'.

Etymology

The word individualization comes from individual, which has in- 'not' and divide 'to separate'. So individualization means making or seeing someone as a single, separate person, which is why we use it for identifying one person in a group.