Dictionary

individualist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English individual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English individualist From individual + -ist.

Meanings

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.
   • 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. 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18:
   • 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. 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

Forms

Relateds

individualistic · anarcho-individualist · individualist anarchism · individualist anarchist

Synonyms

free spirit (someone who does as they wish) · heteroclite · nonconformist

Translations (22)

fr individualiste (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · pl indywidualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · es individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · nl individualist (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · ca individualista (someone who does as they wish) · nl individualist (someone who does as they wish) · ru индивидуалист (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · de Individualistin (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · gl individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · ms individualis (someone who does as they wish) · de Individualist (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · cmn 個人主義者 /个人主义者 (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · gl individualista (someone who does as they wish) · it individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · cs individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · de Individualist (someone who does as they wish) · es individualista (someone who does as they wish) · ms individualis (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · pt individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · ca individualista (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system) · de Individualistin (someone who does as they wish) · az fərdiyyətçi (someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system)