atomistic
- a divided into separate and often disparate elements
- She has tapped into a preoccupation with addiction and alcohol, added a whiff of New Age mysticism and come up with a message that reaches Americans adrift in an atomistic society .
- They would have suburbia turn its back on this 'other directedness' and arrive at individual commitment through an atomistic thinking-through or insight.
- One of the underlying factors in the crisis is the fact that the parochial-school "system"a name it hardly deservesis basically atomistic.