英和和英

語源

From personal +‎ -ize.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, /ˈpɜːs.nə.laɪz/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɝ.sə.nəˌlaɪz/, /ˈpɝs.nəˌlaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.lɑɪz/, /ˈpɜːs.nə.lɑɪz/

動詞

personalize (third-person singular simple present personalizes, present participle personalizing, simple past and past participle personalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
   • 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19:

     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.

   • 2014 October 9, Marina Carver, “Study finds Boston police target African-Americans disproportionately”, in CNN‎:

     “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.”

   • 2025 April 28, Karissa Bell, “Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments”, in Engadget‎:

     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. (transitive) To represent something abstract as a person; to embody.
3. (transitive) To imbue something with one's personality.
   • 1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “A Poet's Revolution Of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 7:

     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.

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