| individual | Marked by a distinctness and a complexity within a unity that characterises organised things, concepts, organic beings and persons. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| individual differences | In clinical psychology, deviations of individuals from the group average or from each other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individual psychology | A theory of human behaviour emphasizing humans' social nature, strivings for mastery, and drive to overcome, by compensation, feelings of inferiority. Synonym: adlerian psychoanalysis, adlerian psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individual therapy | A psychotherapeutic session involving only two persons, the therapist and the patient. Compare: group psychotherapy. Synonym: individual therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individual tolerance | Tolerance to a drug that the person has never received before. (05 Mar 2000) |
| individualism | 1. The quality of being individual; individuality; personality. 2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness. "The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism." (Ed. Rev) Origin: Cf. F. Individualisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| individuality | Those psychological characteristics which differentiate individuals from one another. (12 Dec 1998) |
| individuation | A process of differentiation having for its goal the development of the individual personality. (12 Dec 1998) |
| individuation field | The field within which an organiser can bring about the rearrangement of primordial tissues in such a manner that a complete embryo is formed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| indivisible | 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." 2. <mathematics> Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. Origin: L. Indivisibilis: cf. F. Indivisible. See In- not, and Divisible. 1. That which is indivisible. "By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies." (Digby) 2. <geometry> An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division. Method of indivisibles, a kind of calculus, formerly in use, in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| indivision | A state of being not divided; oneness. Origin: Pref. In- not + division: cf. F. Indivision, LL. Indivisio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |