Crossword clues for individuation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Individuation \In`di*vid`u*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. individuation.]
The act of individuating or state of being individuated;
individualization.
--H. Spencer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Medieval Latin individuationem, noun of action from individuare, from individuus (see individual). Psychological sense is from 1909.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of individuating or individualize. 2 (context philosophy English) The distinction of the individual from the general or universal. 3 (context biology English) The differentiation of tissues.
WordNet
n. discriminating the individual from the generic group or species [syn: individualization, individualisation]
the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality" [syn: individuality, individualism] [ant: commonality]
Wikipedia
The principle of individuation, or , describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.
The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Carl Jung, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel De Landa.
Usage examples of "individuation".
The work of individuation, however, demands that one should not be compulsively affected in this way.
The aim of individuation requires that one should find and then learn to live out of one's own center, in control of one's for and against.
This is distinguishable from individuation, which is a determination of the single source the item came from.
It is only when the child is taught about good and evil that he advances to a second level of individuation characterized by despair and alienation.
As more and more of the basic material needs of the consumer are met, it is strongly predictable that even more economic energy will be directed at meeting the consumer's subtle, varied and quite personal needs for beauty, prestige, individuation, and sensory delight.
Society's leap to a new level of differentiation necessarily brings with it new opportunities for individuation, and the new technology, the new temporary organizational forms, cry out for a new breed of man.