personalism
Americannoun
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Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
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Psychology. an approach stressing individual personality as the central concern of psychology.
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a philosophical movement that stresses the value of persons
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an idiosyncratic mode of behaviour or expression
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Plath and Swift, Nelson argues, have been judged by “the same script that has greeted female profusion, personalism, and ambition literally for millennia.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
As pacifists, personalism gives a pathway for heroism even when the struggle — the struggle to stop the war — is lost.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
Since the invasion, other experts who have studied personalism have weighed in to flesh out the picture, and to highlight that personalism is particularly dangerous when combined with the politics of oil.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2022
But personalism insists that money is never enough.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2021
No principles of wise government had place in any mind, a blunt and jolly personalism as to the Ins and Outs animating all.
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
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