ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Privatism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Privatism is a noun meaning Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.

Meaning

Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.

Example Sentences

Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.
What Habermas describes as ‘family-vocational privatism’, which is similar to what Williams (1983) recognizes as ‘mobile privatism’, can be considered in terms of a category of ‘self-seeking privatism’ (Lodziak, 1996), which is pursued by those for whom capitalism ‘pays off’ in terms of status, financial rewards and so on […]

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Related dictionary entries include self-interest, self, particularism, individualism, personalist, egoism.

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