individualist

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English

Etymology

From individual +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

individualist (plural individualists)

  1. Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
  2. Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
  3. Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
    • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
      However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
    • 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18:
      Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.

Synonyms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Equivalent to individueel +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: in‧di‧vi‧du‧a‧list

Noun

individualist m (plural individualisten, diminutive individualistje n)

  1. an individualist

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French individualiste. By surface analysis, individual +‎ -ist.

Adjective

individualist m or n (feminine singular individualistă, masculine plural individualiști, feminine and neuter plural individualiste)

  1. individualistic

Declension