Individual
Individual noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: our general concept of what constitutes a chair is based on our experience with many individuals that were called chairs
Object and individual are semantically related in be topic. In some cases you can use "Object" instead a noun "Individual".
Object
Object noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: trying to determine whether communication with the dead is an object for study, a hoax, or a figment of the imagination
Individual and object are semantically related in be topic. Sometimes you can use "Individual" instead a noun "Object".
How words are described
| special | special individual | special object |
| particular | particular individual | particular object |
| normal | normal individual | normal object |
| specific | specific individual | specific object |
| Other adjectives: certain, single, powerful, actual, real, dangerous, new, cursed, given, broken, mysterious, unknown, different, eponymous. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Similarly, the offending smudge need not be limited to an individual's face: a stain on their clothing that a potential object of affection must rub out can work perfectly well for this purpose, among other things.
Source: Romance-Inducing Smudge -
Later developments have allowed for the use of video of an object to be enhanced to details well in excess of anything in any individual frame.
Source: Enhance Button -
Harry zeroes in on the law saying that you can't Transfigure parts of whole objects—because as a Muggle knows, every whole object is made of individual atoms!
Source: Achievements in Ignorance
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Object and Individual. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/individual/object
Individual & Object. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/individual/object>.
Object or Individual. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/individual/object.
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