transindividuation

noun

The process of transcending individuality.

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Meanings

nountransindividuation (countable and uncountable, plural transindividuations)

plural transindividuations

  1. countableuncountableThe process of transcending individuality.

    There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).

    2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152
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    In Sri Aurobindo's own texts however, he does not see cosmisization and supramentalization in terms of transindividuation, but as the results of the freedom and extension of individual consciousness and personhood (psychic being) […]

    2016, Debashish Banerji, Makarand R. Paranjape, Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, page 271

Origin

From trans- + individuation.

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APA

transindividuation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transindividuation

MLA

“transindividuation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transindividuation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transindividuation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transindividuation.

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