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US
/ˌɪndɪvɪˈduəˌɫɪzəm/
]
[ UK /ˌɪndɪvˈɪdʒuːəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪndɪvˈɪdʒuːəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
- the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
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the quality of being individual
so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality
How To Use individualism In A Sentence
- Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
- She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
- From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
- These values include individualism, liberty, democracy and the rule of law.
- Authoritative parents respect children's individualism while insisting they meet reasonable requirements.
- Individualism has such essential and non-essential characteristics as plebeianism, freedom, democracy and aggression.
- Also, he had written a song called ‘Man is the Measure of All Things’, which he claimed was a hymn to individualism and against collectivism.
- On the contrary, people on the left and on the right are equally forceful in decrying self-centered individualism, consumerism, new pressures on the family, and the decline of community. Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War
- It is possible that individualism and collectivism operate very differently at the individual level than at the cultural level.
- Because of the emphasis on materialism and individualism, businesses concentrated on ‘shareholder value’ rather than customers or employees.