individualistic
/ˌɪndɪvɪdʒʊəˈlɪstɪk
/adjective
1More interested in individual people than in society as a whole: individualistic cultures where individuals strive for self-realization...
- They had left the feudal system of Scotland for a more individualistic way of life.
- The warm, fuzzy rhetoric of the sisterhood is completely at odds with our brutal, individualistic, competitive society.
- Globalization depends on an ideology of accumulating wealth, personal glory, or individualistic freedom, she said.
Synonyms
unconventional, unorthodox, uncommon, atypical, singular, unique, original, off-centre, nonconformist, independent, freethinking, liberated, unconstrained, unfettered, untrammelled, free-spirited, pioneering, groundbreaking;
eccentric, bohemian, maverick, strange, odd, peculiar, idiosyncratic
2Marked by or expressing individuality; unconventional: her work is quirky and genuinely individualistic...
- Thirdly, English witchcraft beliefs made the suspects very individualistic.
- In recent years a number of artists have worked from a more individualistic perspective.
- The execution may have been a step back from the July performance, but the interpretation was notably different more individualistic and worked-out.
Derivatives
individualistically
- Emphasizing feelings of uniqueness, omnipotence, and invulnerability helps the adolescent to conceive of the self individualistically, i.e. apart from family ties.
- All of this - the work, the yoga, the meetings, ‘advice’ and so-called training - was aimed at making us think individualistically, and not politically.
- It imagines the world communally, not individualistically.