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/ˌɪndɪvˌɪdʒuəlˈɪstɪk/ Listen

adjective

Individualistic adj.

Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism.

Exhibiting marked individuality (3) in thought and action; as, an individualistic way of dressing.

Synonyms: individualist.

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Etymology of 'Individualistic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Browning differs not only from Tennyson but from the prevailing thought of his age, differs in that his emphasis is individualistic. Like all the other Victorians he dwells on the importance of individual devotion to the service of others, but he believes that the chief results of such effort must be in the development of the individual's character, ...

— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... other hand, if Jeffersonian democracy was the representative of all the individualistic tendencies of the later science of political economy, Hamiltonian federalism represented the necessary corrective force of law. It was in many respects a strong survival of colonialism. Together with some of the evil features of colonialism, ...

— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various

... then, it is true, species like the so-called tent caterpillar are met with where numerous larvae spin silken communal nests to which they retire at night and in which they remain to molt. The pupa, like the larva, is individualistic and employs its time in producing the final adult form. The mature individual, however, is constructed almost solely for the greater purpose of perpetuating the species. Indeed the larger silkworm moths do not and cannot ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... and individualistic. He was not as subtle nor as smooth as his confederates. And money was not the only incentive which would drive him to commit crime. He was a gross sensualist, unprincipled and ruthless, and Sanderson's hatred of him was beginning to overshadow ...

— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer

... means. It has allowed private individuals in odd corners to try experiments in new methods and new appliances, that the general intelligence, such as it was, of the community could not have understood. For all its faults, our present individualistic order compared not simply with the communism of primitive tribes, but even with the personal and largely illiterate control of the mediaeval feudal governments, is a good efficient working method. I don't think a Socialist need quarrel ...

— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells

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