<noun.attribute> so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality
a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
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the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
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Individualism \In`di*vid"u*al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. individualisme.] 1. The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.
2. An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness.
The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism. --Ed. Rev.
3. The principle, policy, or practice of maintaining individuality, or independence of the individual, in action; the theory or practice of maintaining the independence of individual initiative, action, and interests, as in industrial organization or in government. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Those who would now have government abandon social responsibility in the name of unbridled individualism are doing Marx's work for him.
"Rugged individualism _ the days when it could work passed about three decades ago.
The "John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award" was created to honor the slain president and promote individualism among the nation's public officials.
Some researchers say the concept of group creativeness, at the heart of Japanese industry, may not work in a society where individualism is king.
No visitor to that country ever would doubt that individualism, though somehow a succession of British governments and policy makers forgot it.
Most health officials blame the inactivity on "savage individualism" and moral decadence they maintain is running deep through the country.
The Tories insist crime is up because school and parental discipline has declined, while the opposition Labor Party blames it on Mrs. Thatcher's free-market doctrines, which it says foster greedy individualism.
Putting aside her European notions of individualism, she submitted to their dress codes and was able to understand many levels of Japanese society. 'In the east women dress to please men.
Deeply held ideas of federalism and individualism, and an intense suspicion of government attempts to equalize people, are but a few of the roadblocks confronting the drive to such a system.
The organisation does not believe it should help to run the country. It preaches robust free market values of decentralisation and individualism. But this is no clean break with the past.
After years of celebrating individualism, software makers are trying to turn personal computers from islands of information into work-group tools.
But others see in the inexorable march toward individualism a tendency to ignore social ills such as poverty and homelessness.
Attorney Coons gets to cite individualism, community values, the danger of Big Brother, even the warning of James Madison: "The best way to divide the country is for the government to impose an orthodoxy on all of us."
University of Maryland student Scott Larson said the high U.S. divorce rate "is a sign of how individualism has gone out of control" in the United States.
As to the latter, it may be remarked that while capitalism is by no means incompatible with Christianity, the growth of individualism has been accompanied by a decline in attendance at church.
The individualism of the 1980s has become the insecurity of the 1990s. It was no accident that in Tuesday's speech Mr Major was not mentioned by name; nor for that matter were Mr Clarke or Mr Douglas Hurd.
The film, like much of Ayn Rand's work, extols rugged individualism, powerful egoism and all refusals to compromise.