[syn: personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Individualize \In`di*vid"u*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Individualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Individualizing.] [Cf. F.
individualiser.]
To mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by
peculiar properties; to invest with individuality; to give
distinctive character to; to make distinctive; to enable
differentiation from others of similar type; -- of properties
of things.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish
the humor of Addison. --N. Drake.
[1913 Webster]
2. to render (a product or service) suitable to each
individual person by varying to some degree its
characteristics; to personalize.
Syn: personalize, individualize, make personal, make more
personal.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. To consider individually; to mention each individual.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
individualize
v 1: make or mark or treat as individual; "The sounds were
individualized by sharpness and tone" [syn:
individualize, individualise]
2: make personal or more personal; "personalized service" [syn:
personalize, personalise, individualize,
individualise] [ant: depersonalise, depersonalize,
objectify]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "individualize":
analyze, anatomize, atomize, change, chop logic,
descend to particulars, desynonymize, detail, difference,
differentiate, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, distinguish,
diversify, divide, individuate, itemize, make a distinction, mark,
mark off, mark out, modify, particularize, peculiarize,
personalize, precise, quality, refine a distinction, segregate,
separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, signalize,
specialize, spell out, split hairs, vary