Definition of Individual
Individual

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.

A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.

An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.

The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

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Individual Quotations

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein

Individual Translations

individual in Afrikaans is individueel, persoonlik
individual in Dutch is hoofdelijk, individueel
individual in French is individu, individuel
individual in German is Individual, eigenwillig, individuell
individual in Italian is individuale, individuo
individual in Latin is specialissimus
individual in Spanish is individual, individuo
individual in Swedish is individuell, enskild, individ, personlig