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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDIVID'UALIZE, v.t. To distinguish; to select or mark as an individual, or to distinguish the peculiar properties of a person from others.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make or mark or treat as individual; "The sounds were individualized by sharpness and tone" [syn: individualize, individualise]
2: make personal or more personal; "personalized service" [syn: personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise] [ant: depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1637 1. to make individual in character 2. to treat or notice individually ; particularize 3. to adapt to the needs or special circumstances of an individual <individualize teaching according to student ability> • individualization noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 give an individual character to. 2 specify. Derivatives: individualization n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Individualize In`di*vid"u*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Individualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Individualizing.] [Cf. F. individualiser.] The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. --N. Drake.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(individualizes, individualizing, individualized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'individualise' To individualize a thing or person means to make them different from other things or people and to give them a recognizable identity. (FORMAL) You can individualize a document by adding comments in the margins. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Particularize, consider individually, specify, name with precision. 2. Make individual, invest with fulness of character, render unique or original, render self-directing or self-determined, individuate.

Moby Thesaurus

analyze, anatomize, atomize, change, chop logic, descend to particulars, desynonymize, detail, difference, differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, individuate, itemize, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, modify, particularize, peculiarize, personalize, precise, quality, refine a distinction, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, signalize, specialize, spell out, split hairs, vary