Thesaurus: individual

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1. a. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
2. a. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
3. n. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
4. n. An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
5. n. The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
6. adj. being or characteristic of a single thing or person
7. adj. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
8. adj. concerning one person exclusively
9. n. a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
10. n. a single organism
11. 1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities. 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. Cowper. An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. Whately. That individuals die, his will ordains. Dryden. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
12. j:44/n:56 n. a single organism a. being or characteristic of a single thing or person s. separate and distinct from others of the same kind s. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing