individualistic
8 synonyms for individualistic, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Focused on individual people rather than on society in general.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. adj
Focused on individual people rather than on society in general.
“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.”
2. adj
Focused on oneself more than on other people; self-centred.
“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.”
3. adj
Showing behaviour or ideas that are unusual and particular to one person.
Etymology
Formed either from individualist and -ic, or from individual and -istic.
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