personalism
noun
a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
personalist
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a word derived from
personalism.
Example Sentences
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But the downside to personalist rule is the absence of constraints when those instincts lead him—and us—in the wrong direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
At the New York Times, Peter Baker describes Trump’s personalist rule and shock doctrine strategy as follows:
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
“Lukashneko is getting old and starts to get sick, and for a personalist regime, it becomes a serious factor for destabilizing the entire system, which begins to shudder and crumble,” Karbalevich said.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2023
Since the end of the Cold War, two out of three personalist dictatorships have collapsed outright on their leader’s departure from office, according to research by the political scientist Erica Frantz.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
This personalist Sociality is, of course, anti-monarchical, and opposed to all privileges of position and birth; it is also "anti-religionist," for it recognises no authorities that are beyond control, except only conformity to nature.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker
