individualize

American  

[in-duh-vij-oo-uh-lahyz] / ˌɪn dəˈvɪdʒ u əˌlaɪz /

especially British, individualise

verb (used with object)

individualized, individualizing

1. to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.

2. to mention, indicate, or consider individually; specify; particularize.

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individualize British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make or mark as individual or distinctive in character

2. to consider or treat individually; particularize

3. to make or modify so as to meet the special requirements of a person

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Other Word Forms

• individualization noun
• individualizer noun
• overindividualization noun
• unindividualized adjective

Etymology

Origin of individualize

First recorded in 1630–40; individual + -ize

Example Sentences

“They want to institutionalize it rather than individualize it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2024

The researchers hope that the results of this study will help to identify elbow injuries in children who play baseball and to individualize treatment based on skeletal maturity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

“This is allowing individual parents to individualize a curriculum for their own worldview.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

“But in the end,” she adds, “there’s always going to be something to individualize your handwriting from somebody else.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2022

At other times he comes forward, reaching his right arm p. 143as far as he can over the desk, as if anxious to individualize his appeal, and to force it home to every heart. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)