The word 'individuality' is correct and perfectly usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the qualities and characteristics that are distinctive to a particular person or thing. For example: "My daughter has an amazing sense of individuality; she marches to the beat of her own drum and isn't afraid to express her unique viewpoint."
But that this happens at all raises questions about "individuality" within an individual.
The problem of individuality now concerns whether fields themselves are individuals, or whether they are the properties of spacetime points.
Alternatively, the omnipresence of cameras and other surveillance technologies might end up making individuals more conformist, says Mr Brin, as they suppress their individuality to avoid drawing too much attention to themselves.The surveillance society is on its way, just as privacy advocates have long warned.
But Apfel has seized the imagination not as a couture fashion plate but as an example to a free-spirited, adventurous New York mindset that, these days, seems in danger of getting lost beneath the anodyne beauty of a Manhattan aesthetic that worships cosmetic dentistry and blow-drying above individuality or creativity.
None of the artists saw herself or himself as a spokesperson – that would be a different kind of denial of individuality.
Tracks like All About That Bass, Shake It Off, Habits (Stay High) and Turn Down for What aren't preaching acceptability; they're encouraging individuality, whether that's through respecting your body, dismissing criticism or getting really drunk.
Baudelaire's best piece on hashish was published in 1860 and entitled "Les Paradis Artificiels" (Artificial Paradises) - a comparison of hashish and wine "as means of expanding individuality".
The regulations for churchyard headstones in England – ultimately at the discretion of the incumbent vicar – seemed to Harriet "not to allow for any individuality and to be put so insensitively".
Women (and men) came together, celebrating women's dignity and individuality.
"There's an individuality to the way that we do it," says Ben Stephenson, the BBC's head of drama commissioning.
But every day we get dressed, it is our opportunity to express our individuality.
