individualist
[in-duh-vij-oo-uh-list]
- a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- an advocate of individualism.
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Origin of individualist
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Examples from the Web for individualist
Contemporary Examples
Their pursuits are individualist, and many seek to be expatriates.
This nation of immigrants is more go-getting and individualist than their European counterparts.
Historical Examples
Thus the individualist stage of religion succeeds the national.
History of ReligionAllan Menzies
But the individualist stage is also, in part at least, the universal stage.
History of ReligionAllan Menzies
But the individualist insists that there are definite limits to its truth.
The Task of Social HygieneHavelock Ellis
The spirit of what he says is, in fact, not individualist but social.
Diderot and the EncyclopdistsJohn Morley
Bentham, then, objects to the Jacobin theory as too absolute and too 'individualist.'
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.Leslie Stephen
individualist
- a person who shows independence and individuality in his behaviour, opinions, or actions
- an advocate of individualism
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Word Origin and History for individualist
n.
1840, from individual + -ist. Related: Individualistic.
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