individualism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French individualisme. By surface analysis, individual + -ism.
Noun
[edit]individualism (countable and uncountable, plural individualisms)
- The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought.
- The moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook that promotes independence and self-reliance of individual people, while opposing the interference with each person's choices by society, the state, or any other group or institution.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:
- [A]nd that one great and all-important occasion and provocative of these beliefs was actually the rise of self-consciousness — that is, the coming of the mind to a more or less distinct awareness of itself and of its own operation, and the consequent development and growth of Individualism, and of the Self-centred attitude in human thought and action.
- (logic) The doctrine that only individual things are real.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that nothing exists but the individual self.
Synonyms
[edit]- (philosophy): solipsism
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “acting without reference to others”): collectivism, statism
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]tendency for a person to act without reference to others
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moral stance
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References
[edit]- OED2
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French individualisme. By surface analysis, individual + -ism.
Noun
[edit]individualism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit] declension of individualism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) individualism | individualismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) individualism | individualismului |
vocative | individualismule |
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]individualism c (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]Declension of individualism
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | individualism | individualisms |
definite | individualismen | individualismens | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
Antonyms
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- Romanian nouns
- Romanian uncountable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish uncountable nouns