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personalistic

personalistic

1 8.0
Giving one leader and their close friends more power than rules
  • adjective
  • /ˌpɜr.sən.əˈlɪs.tɪk/
  • Formal
translation icon : personalista
  • The therapist emphasized a personalistic approach, ensuring each client's unique needs were addressed.
  • personalistic structure
  • personalistic system
  • highly personalistic

Examples

  • His personalistic view of leadership focused on building strong relationships with each team member.

  • The democratic constitutions and parliamentary forms hastily transplanted by colonial rulers were rapidly supplanted by a variety of personalistic, single-party, or military regimes.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Yet, being a personalistic party, it seemed able to survive if its leader remained popular and wanted to keep the party.

    Academic text (1993)
  • A final factor that influences the study of public opinion in Russia is the personalistic way that some researchers treat the survey data.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The 1991-1995 legislature will have these personalistic groups in abundance, perhaps more than ever before.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In the military period, decision-making had been closed, personalistic, and centralized at the top of the executive.

    Academic text (1999)
  • There is nothing new about personalistic political movements in Brazil, nor is there anything unusual about politicians building supra-party bases of support.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The agrarian reform also extended the reach of civil authority and the law into areas formerly under the personalistic authority of patriarchal landlords.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Politically, this represents an unorthodox but nonetheless real form of "rent capture" and reflects the personalistic, patron-client nature of the New Order.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Whatever biomedically oriented in-service training the CNAs receive does not replace the personalistic health belief systems they employ during each hour of their shift.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

individualistic
vspersonalistic
8 6.7

Preferring to act or think independently and be different

focuses on the importance of people and close relationships rather than systems
subjectivistic
vspersonalistic
  • Specialized
9.9

Putting personal feelings and opinions before facts

values people and relationships rather than private feelings or factual claims

Antonyms

66 4.6

Done in a careful planned way

6 7.3

To think about something in a general way without details

Surface Forms

personalistic positive

Morphology

personalistic = personal (transparent) = person + al + istic

Formed from the adjective 'personal' plus the productive suffix '-istic' meaning 'relating to' or 'characteristic of', so the meaning is directly inferable from 'personal'.

Etymology

Personalistic comes from personal, which itself comes from person and means 'of a person', plus the ending -istic that means 'relating to'. So a personalistic style or system focuses on individuals and personal relationships rather than on rules or systems.