super-individualistn.adj.

1912 Eng. Rev. Mar. 638 The art of world-forsakers and hermits, of super-individualists.

1923 W. L. Phelps Some Makers Amer. Lit. 131 He never..rated his ‘education’ very highly, the almost invariable attitude of a super-individualist.

1977 R. Carr Anarchism in France viii. 141 He fastened on enthusiastically to anything..which afforded the super-individualist like himself the opportunity to do as he wished.

1998 T. Gill in D. P. Martinez Worlds Japanese Pop. Culture ii. 34 Superman is the super-individualist: he flies solo.

1915 C. Hamilton Miracle of Love iv. ix. 213 Nature, who recognizes no laws, and is the most super-individualist of them all.

1942 P. Bloomfield Many & Few vii. 76 The learned super-individualist critic, Dr Pevsner, himself a refugee from Nazi superindividualism.

1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 10 Oct. e2 Super-individualist yuppies who are known..for striving for success at any cost.

2010 Pittsburgh Tribune Rev. (Nexis) 16 Aug. Chimpanzees will help strangers with no apparent expectation of reward, a display of..altruism that might not be appealing to super-individualist Ayn Rand.

1934 W. Lewis Let. 2 Nov. (1963) 223 Handicapped as we are under a super-individualist legislation—which allows the utmost licence in criticism of the State, in contradistinction to the Individual.

1943 Mind 52 342 The majority of Kant's followers have..adopted what I may call the ‘super-individualist’ interpretation... Sceptical persons have sometimes wondered whether this super-individual consciousness..is anything more than an exciting name for..the fact that ordinary minds are aware of a public world.

2001 A. Norrie Crime, Reason & Hist. viii. 171 [The function of] a ‘super-individualist’ moral voluntarism... is to limit the use of a defence to defendants who might qualify for it in law, but not be regarded morally to ‘deserve’ it.