individualistic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From individualist + -ic or individual + -istic.
Adjective
[edit]individualistic (comparative more individualistic, superlative most individualistic)
- More interested in individual people than in society as a whole.
- 1895, The Citizen, page 398:
- It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.
- 2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395:
- People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.
- Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric.
- 2012, Carl Ratner, Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era, page 46:
- A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior.
- Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]more interested in the individual than in society as a whole
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