From the 17th century on, individual has indicated separateness, as in individualism.
The concept of an individual features in diverse fields, including biology, law, and philosophy.įrom the 15th century and earlier (and also today within the fields of statistics and metaphysics) individual meant " indivisible", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a person".
Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity.
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