Idiographic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to individuals not-comparable

    "Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    relating to or involving the study of individuals wordnet

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"The natural sciences are nomothetic, whereas the humanities are idiographic."

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