privatism en · NOUN
Etymology
From private + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.
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 […]
2008, Richard Ronald, The Ideology of Home Ownership […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 66:Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.
1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 441:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| privatisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
fi privatismi (Translations) · de Privatismus (Translations)