individuation noun. [,ɪndɪvɪdjʊ'eɪʃ(ǝ)n] E17.
[medieval Latin individuatio(n-), formed as INDIVIDUATE verb: see -ATION.]
1. The action or process of individuating, or of distinguishing as individual; Scholastic Philosophy the means to individual existence, as distinct from that of the species. E17.
b. Jungian Psychology. The process of establishing the wholeness and autonomy of the individual self by the integration of consciousness and the collective unconscious. E20.

2. The condition of being an individual; individuality, personal identity. M17.

3. Biology. The development or maintenance of a functional organic unity; in colonial organisms, the development of separate but interdependent units. M19.

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