individualist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From individual + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]individualist (plural individualists)
- Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
- Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
- Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- 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.
- 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
[edit]- (someone who does as they wish): free spirit, heteroclite, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick
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[edit]Translations
[edit]someone who believes in individualism as sociopolitical system
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someone who does as they wish
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Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to individueel + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: in‧di‧vi‧du‧a‧list
Noun
[edit]individualist m (plural individualisten, diminutive individualistje n)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French individualiste. By surface analysis, individual + -ist.
Adjective
[edit]individualist m or n (feminine singular individualistă, masculine plural individualiști, feminine and neuter plural individualiste)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | individualist | individualistă | individualiști | individualiste | |||
| definite | individualistul | individualista | individualiștii | individualistele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | individualist | individualiste | individualiști | individualiste | |||
| definite | individualistului | individualistei | individualiștilor | individualistelor | ||||
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, individuell + -ist.
Noun
[edit]individualist c
Declension
[edit]Declension of individualist
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