2009年1月23日 星期五

intravidualistic ,intra-, individual

Instead of individuals searching for authenticity, we are “intraviduals” defined by shifting personas and really cool electronics, which help us manage “the myriad data streams, impulses, desires and even consciousnesses that we experience in our heads as we navigate multiple worlds.”
In the Elsewhere Society, he explains, “guilt is often the moral ax that serves to split our selfhood into intravidualistic fragments.”

individual
    1. Of or relating to an individual, especially a single human: individual consciousness.
    2. By or for one person: individual work; an individual portion.
  1. Existing as a distinct entity; separate: individual drops of rain.
    1. Marked by or expressing individuality; distinctive or individualistic: an individual way of dressing.
    2. Special; particular: Each variety of melon has its individual flavor and texture.
    3. Serving to identify or set apart: “There was nothing individual about him except a deep scar … across his right cheek” (Rebecca West).
n.
    1. A single human considered apart from a society or community: the rights of the individual.
    2. A human regarded as a unique personality: always treated her clients as individuals.
    3. A person distinguished from others by a special quality.
    4. Usage Problem. A person.
  1. A single animal or plant as distinguished from a species, community, or group.
  2. A member of a collection or set; a specimen.

[Middle English, single, indivisible, from Old French, from Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduus : in-, not; see in–1 + dīviduus, divisible (from dīvidere, to divide).]




intra-



Word element. [L.] inside of, within.

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