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Personalize (verb) means to change something so that it suits a particular person's needs or tastes.
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To change something so that it suits a particular person's needs or tastes.
"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."
— Karissa Bell, Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments (2025)
2
To show an idea or quality as if it were a person.
3
To give something a stamp of your own character.
"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."
— Terri L. Jewell, A Poet's Revolution Of Life (1989)
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depersonalize
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What is the meaning of personalize?
"personalize" (verb) means to change something so that it suits a particular person's needs or tastes.
What is another word for personalize?
Other words for "personalize" include personalise, individualize, individualise.
What is the opposite of personalize?
The opposite of "personalize" is depersonalize.
What are the different meanings of personalize?
"personalize" has 3 main meanings: 1. To change something so that it suits a particular person's needs or tastes; 2. To show an idea or quality as if it were a person; 3. To give something a stamp of your own character.
