individualistic

From individualist +‎ -ic or individual +‎ -istic.

individualistic (comparative more individualistic, superlative most individualistic)

1. More interested in individual people than in society as a whole.
   • 1895, The Citizen, page 398:

     It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.

   • 2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395:

     People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.

2. Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric.
   • 2012, Carl Ratner, Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era, page 46:

     A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior.

3. Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas.

• anarcho-individualistic

• individualism