personalize

CEFRB2

/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To make something suited to a particular person.
02
verb
Extra detail
To imbue something with one's personality.

Examples

Could you show me how to personalize my desktop?
I think it would be difficult to personalize every wedding invitation.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 4

Also pronounced

/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.lɑɪz/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

To represent something abstract as a person; to embody.
To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.

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In context

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.
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.

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You can blank your phone case with your name and favorite colors.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19
“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.”
2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN
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.
2025 April 28, Karissa Bell, “Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments”, in Engadget
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.
1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “A Poet's Revolution Of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 7

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Origin

verb

From personal + -ize.

Deep Dive

verb

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You can blank— your phone case with your name and favorite colors.

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Origin

verb

You can blank your phone case with your name and favorite colors.