Individualistic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Individualistic is an adjective meaning More interested in individual people than in society as a whole.
Meaning
More interested in individual people than in society as a whole.
More Meanings
- Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric.
- Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas.
Example Sentences
A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior.
People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.
It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.
The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
Synonyms for individualistic
Depending on context, synonyms include idiocentric, self-centered, solipsistic, egocentric, egoistical, interested.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include individual, capitalist, capitalistic, nonconformist, self-sufficient, self-reliant.
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