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individualist

[ in-duh-vij-oo-uh-list ]

noun

  1. a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  2. an advocate of individualism.


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Other Words From

  • in·di·vid·u·al·is·tic [in-d, uh, -vij-oo-, uh, -, lis, -tik] adjective
  • su·per·in·di·vid·u·al·ist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of individualist1

First recorded in 1830–40; individual + -ist
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Example Sentences

If you could persuade people that this isn’t about welfarism, but about opportunity, then I think individualists might buy into that.

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Parenting in individualist countries is often an intensely solitary pursuit.

Our individualist society is long overdue for broad systemic change in how we support care of all kinds, but informal community networks offer solace that peppy slogans can’t.

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By the early 90s, people like you and me were arch individualists.

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They were fierce individualists who were incapable of collaboration.

The Obama years have been marked by a sharp turn toward anti-individualist, anti-authoritarian philosophy.

Their pursuits are individualist, and many seek to be expatriates.

This quote is supposed to confirm Thatcher as an anti-social radical individualist of the Ayn Rand distemper.

It is hard to be a "rugged individualist" when caring for babies who can't fend for themselves.

This nation of immigrants is more go-getting and individualist than their European counterparts.

The average citizen of three generations ago was probably not aware that he was an extreme individualist.

The individualist virtue of 'self-help' was not confined to successful money-making or to the wealthier classes.

The individualist position naturally tends to take the form of egoism.

The Utopia was constructed on 'individualist' principles, because common sense naturally approves individualism.

Eleutheromaniac signs occurred early, however, leading him to attach himself to the individualist Bradlaugh.

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