individuation

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Each dancer moves with intriguing, individuating specificity: this one shaking, that one twitching sinuously or twisting like the head of a sprinkler.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022

“Counter to what we expected, the individuating information didn’t reduce or remove bias,” Ellingson said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021

To be “one of Harvey’s victims” is—has to be—the opposite of individuating.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2020

By individuating their lives in fiercely lyrical language, each in their own way sings, critiques, and dances the body electric.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016

Of those who reject the Thomistic doctrine some few contend that it is the actual existence of any specific nature that should be conceived as individuating the latter.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter