individualist

American  

[in-duh-vij-oo-uh-list] / ˌɪn dəˈvɪdʒ u ə lɪst /

noun

1. a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.

2. an advocate of individualism.

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Other Word Forms

• individualistic adjective
• superindividualist noun

Etymology

Origin of individualist

First recorded in 1830–40; individual + -ist

Example Sentences

You also write about alternatives to the individualist culture, like worker cooperatives and other kinds of voluntarism.

From Salon

"Trotskyist," in the Russian vernacular imagination, still signifies renegades, rebels, internal dissidents and exiled radicals, individualists and intellectuals.

From Salon

Yet rugged individualists will be disappointed if they hope that the drop in work quantity led to a drop in work quality.

From Salon

“There’s this co-op tradition, which is unusual for America, which is so individualist.”

From Washington Post

Inside that cauldron of fakery, Trump, no rugged individualist, and padded with his father’s millions, gravitated to a specific milieu of arrivistes whom he equated with supreme power, class and ruthlessness.

From Washington Post