Individualities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Individuality \In`di*vid`u*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Individualities}.
     [Cf. F. individualit['e].]
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     1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting
        an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness;
        unity. --Arbuthnot.


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              They possess separate individualities. --H. Spencer.
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     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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     3. A habit of thinking and acting in one's own distinctive
        manner and as one believes appropriate, not being heavily
        influenced by the opinions of others; -- of people.
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