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privatism|ˈpraɪvətɪz(ə)m|
[f. private a. + -ism.]
An inclination or tendency to be private (in various senses); the use or advocacy of personal or private ideas, institutions, etc. Hence privaˈtistic a., privaˈtistically adv.
1948C. S. Lewis in Williams & Lewis Arthurian Torso ii. vi. 188 ‘Privatism.’ This occurs when the poet writes what the reader, however sensitive and generally cultivated he may be, could not possibly understand unless the poet chose to tell him something more than he has told. 1970Time 28 Dec. 6 Few observers of the U.S. scene foresaw that political passions on the campuses would become muted in a new emphasis on ‘privatism’. 1970C. A. Reich Greening of Amer. x. 284 ‘Human nature’ was not necessarily always privatistic, grasping, competitive, materialistic. 1971J. J. Shapiro tr. Habermas's Toward Rational Society vi. 121 Student activists are less privatistically oriented to professional careers and future families than other students. 1971Atlantic Monthly Nov. 119, I cannot say in blanket fashion whether this Mao myth is ‘good or bad’... The ‘privatistic’ alternative, anyway, in a country with per capita income perhaps one twentieth of America's, is not a glittering one. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Sept. 1054/2 Self-interest—what Dr. Kammen euphemistically calls ‘privatism’—and secularism were strong. 1978T. Honoré Tribonian 37 They were trained largely in private law..and imperial constitutions, let alone criminal and public law, had little part to play in legal education. The privatistic outlook of these men is likely to be reflected in the output of constitutions. |