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individualist

noun

Etymology

From individual + -ist.

  1. derived from indīviduum — “an indivisible thing”
  2. derived from indīviduālis
  3. suffixed as individualist — “individual + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.

  2. Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism

    Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.

  3. Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.

    • However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
    • Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA