Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that asserts individuality by independence of thought and action.
- noun An advocate of individualism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who accepts any theory or doctrine of individualism.
- Of or pertaining to individualism; individualistic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who pursues independent thought or action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who believes in
individualism - noun Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained to external influences
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by or expressing individuality
- noun a person who pursues independent thought or action
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Examples
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And I will use the term individualist anarchism in a broad sense, to describe any position that (1) denies the legitimacy of any form of (monopoly) government authority, (2) on individualist ethical grounds.
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism 2008
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And I will use the term individualist anarchism in a broad sense, to describe any position that (1) denies the legitimacy of any form of (monopoly) government authority, (2) on individualist ethical grounds.
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In terms of the enneagram, which breaks people down into nine types, I am a four, otherwise known as the individualist or the tragic romantic.
Tom Matlack: Is It Safe to Come Out of the Cave? Tom Matlack 2011
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In terms of the enneagram, which breaks people down into nine types, I am a four, otherwise known as the individualist or the tragic romantic.
Tom Matlack: Is It Safe to Come Out of the Cave? Tom Matlack 2011
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A libertarian is very much the individualist, which is a wild card, and as a result, I have found that it's almost impossible to maintain friendships with them.
Are Libertarians Especially Predictable?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Thus it includes, but is not limited to, the specific nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist movement known as individualist anarchism, whose members included Benjamin Tucker, Victor Yarros, and Voltairine de Cleyre.
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Thus it includes, but is not limited to, the specific nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist movement known as individualist anarchism, whose members included Benjamin Tucker, Victor Yarros, and Voltairine de Cleyre.
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism 2008
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Liberal feminism is distinguished from libertarian feminism aka individualist feminism by its belief in government solutions for social problems; it is, for example, rare to find a liberal feminist who does not support welfare policies to help the poor.
What distinguishes each form of feminism from the other? 2005
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Hayek's work moved economics from a world of logical givens and non-marginalist assumptions to a fully "individualist" explanatory system where unique entrepreneurial learners in a context of changing relative prices provided the causal explanatory "variable".
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(The provision in our own Constitution that forbids punishment by "corruption of blood" – disinheriting the children of traitors – is a good example of the kind of individualist moral scruples that seem to have passed Scheuer by.)
Balkinization 2007
fbharjo commented on the word individualist
a one and only list?
January 19, 2012