individualization

English

Alternative forms

• individualisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From individual +‎ -ization.

Noun

individualization (countable and uncountable, plural individualizations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized.
   • 2023 August 28, Michelle Lhooq, quoting Tommy Diacono, “Burning Man attendees roadblocked by climate activists: ‘They have a privileged mindset’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “The individualization of systemic problems under late-stage capitalism is crazy,” Diacono later said.

Derived terms

• deindividualization

Translations

act of individualizing

• Belarusian: індывідуаліза́цыя f (indyvidualizácyja)
• Catalan: individualització (ca) f
• Danish: individualisering c
• Dutch: individualisering (nl) f
• French: individualisation (fr) f
• Galician: individualización (gl) f
• German: Individualisierung (de) f
• Hindi: वैयक्तिकरण (vaiyaktikraṇ), वैयक्‍तिकीकरण (vaiyak‍tikīkraṇ), व्यष्टिकरण (vyaṣṭikraṇ), निजीकरण (nijīkraṇ)
• Polish: indywidualizacja (pl) f
• Russian: индивидуализа́ция (ru) f (individualizácija)
• Spanish: individualización f
• Swedish: individualisering (sv) c
• Ukrainian: індивідуаліза́ція f (indyvidualizácija)

Further reading

• “individualization”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries