privatism

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From private +‎ -ism.

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privatism (countable and uncountable, plural privatisms)

  1. Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. [from 20th c.]
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 441:
      Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.
    • 2008, Richard Ronald, The Ideology of Home Ownership [] , Springer, →ISBN, page 66:
      What Habermas describes as ‘family-vocational privatism’, which is similar to what Williams (1983) recognizes as ‘mobile privatism’, can be considered in terms of a category of ‘self-seeking privatism’ (Lodziak, 1996), which is pursued by those for whom capitalism ‘pays off’ in terms of status, financial rewards and so on []

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