Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To give individuality to; individualize.
- v. To form into a separate, distinct entity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make individual; give the character of individuality to; discriminate or mark as distinct; individualize.
- Undivided; indivisible.
- In metaphysics, rendered individual; brought down from the ideal world of forms to the world of individual existence; individuated.
Wiktionary
- v. To make, or cause to appear, individual.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Undivided.
- v. To distinguish from others of the species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give individual shape or form to
- v. give individual character to
Examples
“Only a human being can individuate, which is to say, achieve a destiny which is unique to him.”
No quarrel over teaching Darwin's theory of Evolution in schools in India
“Fathers, he says, help the child "individuate"; they are more willing than mothers to let a child out of their sight, and on average will let a baby crawl as much as twice as far before retrieving her.”
“This is why humans don't tend to blush until about age two, right around the same time they "individuate" and realize they are not the same person as mom and dad.”
“Is this about their schoolwork, or perhaps part of their need to separate and individuate from you?”
The Huffington Post: Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: Navigating Homework Hell, Part 2
“In my dream, though, I was ready to respond to my father's question, his desire to help me individuate.”
The Huffington Post: Rebecca Walker: After Mom, Dad: Lily Diamond's Happy Family
“The first thing to remember is that teenagers' unique developmental task is to individuate: to break away from you, the parent who is looking for a little appreciation.”
The Huffington Post: Christine Carter, PhD: Teenagers: Are Yours More Entitled Than Grateful?
“The first thing to remember is that teenagers 'unique developmental task is to individuate: to break away from you, the parent who is looking for a little appreciation.”
The Huffington Post: Christine Carter, PhD: Teenagers: Are Yours More Entitled Than Grateful?
“Similarly, but in a separate vein, some kids do poorly as a way to individuate, to define themselves by defying their parents 'interest in their academic achievement.”
The Huffington Post: Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: Navigating Homework Hell, Part 3
“Being a wise and sympathetic father, he'll no doubt give me a few words about adolescent rebellion, or the painful process of learning how to individuate and live apart from the parents.”
“We wanted the child-like freedom that Leo promises but obviously forgot the Leo responsibility to individuate and channel this creative energy into something larger than ourselves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘individuate’.
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Learning
For me to learn new words.
Bahamian, gamble, democratic, subsequent, horror, inherited, individuate, replete, prone, tiny, choreographer, magnetic and 7 more...
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
Tweets
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mollusque inDIVIDuatE Jun 15, 2009
vanishedone Er... you do know WordNet is the source for the definition next to the word above, right? Feb 19, 2009
ecbrenner "Give individual character to" --WordNet Feb 19, 2009