individualism
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- n the quality of being individual
- n a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
- n the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
- I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
- But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are important human motivations beyond what he called "reckless individualism"--is very relevant these days.
- A combination of towering individuals and societies that played down individualism helped liberate, ravage and resurrect the vast, protean region.