individual identity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofindividualandidentity
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individual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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identity
noun
uk/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofindividualandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofindividual identity
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Then, communitarian formulations recede as the patient again has anindividualidentity.
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However, even this historical perspective would misrepresent psychologists' interest in the self, for it recognizes only studies that explicitly examineindividualidentityand coherence.
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Withindividualidentityhad gone individual property; amongst his wife's numerous relatives, the understanding was that whoever needed the car would make use of it.
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Youth culture offers a collective identity, a reference group from which youth can develop anindividualidentity.
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So the teaching of language is a highly charged subject - central toindividualidentityand survival, but because of its variety, threatening to social unity.
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Before doing this however, it is perhaps appropriate at this stage to ask what personal,individualidentityactually is.
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The protagonist's will toindividualidentityconfronts the fact of community, and heritage, and installs her newly acquired personal values.
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Because the overall number of such votes was relatively small, however, senators had little opportunity to use roll call votes to forge anindividualidentity.
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However, parties may not necessarily want to give up theirindividualidentityby merging into a new organization.
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In the process of examining this paradox came the revelation that transformingindividualidentityrepresented a step towards constructing a new collective being.
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Ethics and human rights are seen not as competitive but as complementary domains for both collective andindividualidentity.
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In addition, although sheltered housing assuaged people's concerns about security, its side-effects, for some, were a sense of threat to theirindividualidentity.
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There are two broad social contexts in whichindividualidentityis significant.
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Sexuality may be considered one dimension of intimacy, but also as a dimension ofindividualidentity.
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In this context, the two principal approaches to welfare-to-work that are outlined above bear uponindividualidentityin rather different ways.
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Although this book does not deal directly withindividualidentity, it is clear that a multidimensional view of it is assumed.
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This serves to take away theirindividualidentity, and make them simply part of a collectivity rather than a person, or an artist, in their own right.
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Sucharov takes the ideas of psychoanalysis and construction ofindividualidentityand applies them to the state.
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