Individuation vs. Individualization — What's the Difference?

The principle of individuation, or principium individuationis, describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Gustav Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Manuel De Landa.

To give individuality to.

The act or process of individuating, especially the process by which social individuals become differentiated one from the other.

To consider or treat individually; particularize.

The condition of being individuated; individuality.

To modify to suit the wishes or needs of a particular individual

The development of the individual from the general or universal.

The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized.

The distinction or determination of the individual within the general or universal.

The act of individualizing; the state of being individualized; individuation.

In Jungian psychology, the gradual integration and unification of the self through the resolution of successive layers of psychological conflict.

Discriminating the individual from the generic group or species

(Embryology) Formation of distinct organs or structures through the interaction of adjacent tissues.

The process of individuating or individualizing.

(philosophy) The distinction of the individual from the general or universal.

(biology) The differentiation of tissues.

The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization.

Discriminating the individual from the generic group or species

The quality of being individual;