(n.) The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.
(n.) The character or property appropriate or peculiar to an individual; that quality which distinguishes one person or thing from another; the sum of characteristic traits; distinctive character; as, he is a person of marked individuality.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
(20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
Selfhood
Definition:
(n.) Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Example Sentences:
(1) That impossible selfhood is particularly in evidence in 2011's The Wrong Ferrari , a "screwball tradgedy [sic]" and "ketamine-inspired movie shot entirely on iPhone" starring, among others, fellow lost boys Macaulay Culkin and Pete Doherty .
(2) Since body image is an important concept, perhaps movement can be made to other areas of self-concept, such as family, social, identity, and personal conceptions of selfhood.
(3) The romantic vision sees man as essentially striving for full selfhood, and mental suffering is the result of the thwarting influence of the environment.
(4) The vulnerability to paranoid phenomena may be seen to be a result of past experiences of subversion of "selfhood."
(5) It speaks, in the vernacular of the black church, with clarity and conviction to African Americans' historical plight and looks forward to a time when that plight will be eliminated ("We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'.
(6) He even painted a portrait of a philosopher: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, makes explicit the problems of memory, history, and selfhood that haunt every Rembrandt portrait.
(7) His selfhood is cherished and sustained as best it can be.
(8) This combination of sweet and monstrous attributes in her father's nature, and again in the contrasting temperaments of the parental couple, must have been impossible to integrate for the small Virginia, who already was desperately engaged in the struggle for selfhood.
(9) In terms of ideology, the pursuit of fitness is promoted as an opportunity for individuals to avert several of the risks to selfhood thought to be present in modern social organization.
(10) Lacan's insight into the role of acquisition of language helps us to understand the formation of the subject in pursuit of a virtual selfhood, as Sartre described, but embedded within an intersubjective matrix.
(11) It is important to study in which contexts in nursing personhood and selfhood are enhanced and when they are diminished.
(12) The authors under review here all take as their topic current problems in selfhood and how they affect our relations to others.
(13) Your 'eating personality' Where once was just one personality ripe for the decoding, there are now many, and in this multiverse of selfhood falls the "eating personality".
(14) The emerging feeling of selfhood appears to be the precipitate of finely tuned interactive regulations involving mother and child.
(15) Williams, 25, is downbeat, intelligent, unimpressed by anything (least of all himself), and a writer of rare lyrical power, whether discussing sex, selfhood or BBC4's historical documentaries.
(16) Given these understandings of the relationship between paranoid phenomena and pathological narcissism, treatment will focus on reducing the threats to selfhood, refinding the self, and reestablishing ties to internal sources of affection, initiative and aspiration.
(17) The psychotherapy of a 10-year-old boy is used to demonstrate the usefulness of idealizing and mirroring transferences to help patients move from a state of lack of selfhood and self-differentiation to the development of self-structures that provide strength and self-esteem.
(18) Among the positive changes, the majority emphasized their greater autonomy, freedom, and sense of selfhood.
(19) I know that it’s quite a demanding listen, the album, so I’m amazed how well it’s done.” She says the album’s key theme, “constructing a selfhood that you can be proud of”, also informs Hold Your Own: “acknowledging all the selves that you’ve been and want to become.
(20) How can personhood and selfhood be enhanced or even restored in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, and academic institutions?