Individuality is what makes one person unlike everybody else. Express your individuality, lose your individuality, a strong individuality.
It is treated as a virtue in English-speaking cultures and as a problem in some others, which is worth knowing before assuming the word is neutral. Uniforms and mass production are the standing examples of what is said to threaten it.
1nounindividualityWhat makes one person unlike everybody else.
“The school lets pupils express their individuality through their hairstyles.”
individuality is a quality.
Latin individuus means undivided — in, not, plus dividere, to divide. An individual is what cannot be split further.
Proto-Indo-European
*dwóh₁
Latin
indīviduum — an indivisible thing
Medieval Latin
indīviduālis
English
individual
English, today
individuality
Built from
From individual + -ity. Displaced native Old English hād. individual comes from Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Displaced native Old English hād (“person, individual”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA