individualist
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
individual + -ist
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
individualist (plural individualists)
- Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
- Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
- 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[edit]
- (someone who does as they wish): free spirit, heteroclite, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system
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someone who does as they wish
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French individualiste. By surface analysis, individual + -ist.
Adjective[edit]
individualist m or n (feminine singular individualistă, masculine plural individualiști, feminine and neuter plural individualiste)
Declension[edit]
Declension of individualist
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | individualist | individualistă | individualiști | individualiste | ||
definite | individualistul | individualista | individualiștii | individualistele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | individualist | individualiste | individualiști | individualiste | ||
definite | individualistului | individualistei | individualiștilor | individualistelor |