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Contrary to the spirit of
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individualistic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 More interested in individual people than in society as a whole 2 Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric 3 Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Individualistic \In`di*vid`u*al*is"tic\, a. Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. --London Athen[ae]um. exhibiting marked individuality[3] in thought and action; as, an individualistic way of dressing. Syn: individualist.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing" [syn: individualist ] with minimally restricted freedom in commerce [syn: laissez-faire(a) ]
Usage examples of individualistic.
So while it was desire for revenue that prompted the early sales of the public domain in the Mississippi Valley, the nation got in return not only means to help pay its Revolution debt, but, incidentally, settlements of highly individualistic, self-dependent, and interdependent pioneers, gathered about one highly paternalistic or maternalistic institution--the public school.
And these scenes but illustrate the rough races to the gold-fields and the iron mountains and the oil-wells, in eagerness to seize whatever earth had to offer and turn it to immediate wealth--rough, restless precursors, producers, poets eager for to-day, yet coming by and by, as we have seen, to be ready to spend for to-morrow, building schools and universities, enlarging the field of public provision and service, and filling the land, once neighborly, individualistic, with institutions of philanthropy.
They are avowedly individualistic, nepotic conservationists and only in effect national.
Our whole younger generation is irreligious in the extreme, and self-assured, individualistic beyond bearance.
The entire society was, after all, a military aristocracy—or perhaps it would actually be more accurate to say military autocracy—with strict codes of honor and lines of responsibility, obligation, and duty, while she was one of those deplorably individualistic Ransarans.
That was how humans did things, worked in concert to multiply individual strengths and knowledge, relying on reasoning and training, rather than the aggressive, individualistic chest beating and bared teeth that characterized hrinn.
Such creatures, being territorial, individualistic and aggressive, much like men, would not be likely to find the bland idealisms of more vegetative organisms interesting, attractive or practical, Logical, and terrible, they would not be likely to find the fallacy of the single virtue, the hypothesis of social reductivism, alluring.
Story by story, they stand apart from each other-even when there is more than one winner by a particular writer-and the general impression they give is that they are works of fiction written by distinct and highly individualistic authors.