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individualist

English

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Etymology

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From individual ‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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individualist (plural individualists)

  1. Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
  2. Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
  3. Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
    • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
      However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.
    • 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18:
      Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Equivalent to individueel ‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: in‧di‧vi‧du‧a‧list

Noun

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individualist m (plural individualisten, diminutive individualistje n)

  1. an individualist

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French individualiste. By surface analysis, individual ‎ -ist.

Adjective

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individualist m or n (feminine singular individualistă, masculine plural individualiști, feminine and neuter plural individualiste)

  1. individualistic

Declension

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite individualist individualistă individualiști individualiste
definite individualistul individualista individualiștii individualistele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite individualist individualiste individualiști individualiste
definite individualistului individualistei individualiștilor individualistelor

Swedish

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, individuell ‎ -ist.

Noun

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individualist c

  1. individualist

Declension

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Declension of individualist
nominative genitive
singular indefinite individualist individualists
definite individualisten individualistens
plural indefinite individualister individualisters
definite individualisterna individualisternas
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