Type includes more than is in the individual.
Traits, on the contrary, are considered wholly within the compass of the individual. Many kinds of typology flourish. There are literary types, energy types, pathological types, constitutional types, eidetic types, statistical types, and ideal types. All typologies place boundaries where boundaries do not belong. In the strictest sense, he points out, all traits are individual an no trait can be observed in more than a single individual, i.e., they are all unique.