individualist

English

Etymology

individual +‎ -ist

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.
   • 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

• (someone who does as they wish): free spirit, heteroclite, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick

Related terms

• individualistic

Translations

someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system

• Catalan: individualista m or f
• Czech: individualista m
• French: individualiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: individualista m or f
• German: Individualist (de) m, Individualistin (de) f
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• Italian: individualista m or f
• Portuguese: individualista m or f
• Russian: индивидуалист (ru) m (individualist)
• Spanish: individualista (es) m or f

someone who does as they wish

• Catalan: individualista m or f
• Galician: individualista m or f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Individualist (de) m, Individualistin (de) f
• Spanish: individualista (es) m or f