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

“It helps to humanize and individualize the vastness of the Holocaust and personalize history that is sometimes only communicated through statistics,” she added.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 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

With all the features of the Umbrian School, they already show the freer impulse of his own mind,—a decided effort to individualize.

From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall