INDIVIDUAL

Individual

An individual is a person or a specific object. Individuality is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals. The exact definition of an individual is important in the fields of biology, law, and philosophy.

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individual

Noun

  1. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
  2. A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
  3. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.

Adjective

  1. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
  2. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.


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