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individualism
noun
- individual character; individuality
- an individual peculiarity
- the doctrine that individual freedom in economic enterprise should not be restricted by governmental or social regulation; laissez faire
- the doctrine that the state exists for the individual and not the individual for the state
- the doctrine that self-interest is the proper goal of all human actions; egoism
- action based on any of these doctrines
- the leading of one's life in one's own way without conforming to prevailing patterns
Related Forms:
- individualist noun, adjective
- individualistic adjective
See individualism in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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