[syn: identity, personal identity, individuality]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Individuality \In`di*vid`u*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Individualities.
   [Cf. F. individualit['e].]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. The quality or state of being individual or constituting
      an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness;
      unity. --Arbuthnot.
      [1913 Webster]
            They possess separate individualities. --H. Spencer.
      [1913 Webster]
   2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]
   3. A habit of thinking and acting in one's own distinctive
      manner and as one believes appropriate, not being heavily
      influenced by the opinions of others; -- of people.
      [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
individuality
    n 1: the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the
         movement that she lost all sense of individuality" [syn:
         individuality, individualism, individuation] [ant:
         commonality, commonness]
    2: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a
       persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join
       the army" [syn: identity, personal identity,
       individuality]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "individuality":
   character, combination, complexion, difference, differentiation,
   differentness, dissimilarity, distinctiveness, egohood, fusion,
   human factor, humor, identity, independence, individualism,
   indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity,
   inviolability, irreducibility, makeup, nature, nominalism,
   nonconformity, oneness, organic unity, particularism,
   particularity, personal equation, personal identity, personality,
   personship, purity, self-identity, selfhood, selfness,
   selfsameness, separateness, simplicity, singleness, singularity,
   solidarity, solidification, solidity, soul, temper, temperament,
   undividedness, unification, uniformity, uniqueness, unity,
   univocity, unlikeness, wholeness