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individuate

 verb
     
in‧di‧vid‧u‧ate formal
1 [transitive] to make someone or something clearly different from others of the same kind:
The characters in the play are beautifully individuated.
2 [intransitive] American English to have an idea of yourself as an independent person, separate from other people
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