individualist
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒuəlɪst/
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individualista
- Were the settlers of New England rugged individualists or community-minded zealots?
- a rugged individualist
- an insistent individualist
- an extreme individualist
The founding fathers of the United States, are they individualists or are they conservatives?
- The founding fathers of the United States, are they individualists or are they conservatives?
- We are in the United States, a nation of individualists.
- You know, where I ended up with the book was this idea that we live, that we are in the West individualists.
Examples
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American poets favor a definition of themselves in the cultural firmament as outsiders, lone wolves, individualists, and displaced persons.
Academic text (2010) -
Besides, they concluded that individualists in general will tend to be more positive towards whistleblowing than collectivists.
Academic text (2013) -
I am far more of an individualist than I ever was.
Academic text (2016) -
"But for his age, Alobar the great individualist is just like any common man."
Fiction book (1990) -
What about those few individualists who are attracted to interactive team sports?
Academic text (1999) -
The founding fathers of the United States, are they individualists or are they conservatives?
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There were keen individualists among women who began practicing Islam in the 1980s.
Academic text (2000) -
Institution-based care better serves the needs of those individualists who wish not to be so personally involved.
Academic text (2001) -
The country people were stubborn individualists, but nevertheless very strong on community.
Academic text (1990) -
An individualist who values personal freedom often chooses to follow their own beliefs rather than the crowd.
Synonyms
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7.4
A person who thinks and acts independently, not following usual rules
23
4.8
A person who follows their own way and ignores social rules
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5.0
A person who prefers to do things alone rather than with others
Antonyms
Compounds
A political idea that values each person's freedom over rules from society
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
individualist = individual (transparent) = individual + ist
Formed by the productive suffix '-ist' added to the noun 'individual' to mean 'a person who' behaves in a given way.
Etymology
Individualist comes from individual, which originally meant 'not divided' because the in- part means 'not' and divide means 'to separate'. The ending -ist means 'a person who believes or does' something, so an individualist is a person who prefers to act alone and follow their own ideas.