personalize — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.

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   These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche.

   “Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”

   In a draft of their paper, the unnamed researchers describe how they not only used AI to generate responses, but attempted to personalize its replies based on information gleaned from the original poster’s prior Reddit history.

2. To represent something abstract as a person; to embody.

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3. To imbue something with one's personality.

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   Gloria Hull, best known as a Black Feminist literary critic, expands and personalizes her examination of creative thought in her first collection of poetry, Healing Heart.

Verb

1. make personal or more personal

   Synonyms

   personaliseindividualizeindividualise

   Antonyms

   depersonalize

   Broader terms

   changealtermodify

   Examples

   personalized service