INDIVIDUALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does individualist mean? 

• INDIVIDUALIST (noun)
  The noun INDIVIDUALIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who pursues independent thought or action

  Familiarity information: INDIVIDUALIST used as a noun is very rare.

• INDIVIDUALIST (adjective)
  The adjective INDIVIDUALIST has 1 sense:

1. marked by or expressing individuality

  Familiarity information: INDIVIDUALIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIVIDUALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who pursues independent thought or action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("individualist" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "individualist"):

dropout (someone who withdraws from a social group or environment)

lone hand; lone wolf; loner (a person who avoids the company or assistance of others)

fencesitter; independent; mugwump (a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics))

night owl; nightbird; nighthawk (a person who likes to be active late at night)

naturist; nudist (a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion)

withdrawer (an individualist who withdraws from social interaction)

Derivation:

individualism (the quality of being individual)

individualism (a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence)

• INDIVIDUALIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by or expressing individuality

Synonyms:

individualist; individualistic

Context example:

an individualistic way of dressing

Similar:

individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

 Context examples 

I am the only individualist in this room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He is certainly an individualist of the most pronounced type.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And they will eat you up, you socialists—who are afraid of socialism and who think yourselves individualists.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then you are an individualist, a materialist, and, logically, a hedonist.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As for myself, I am an individualist.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There aren't half a dozen individualists in Oakland, but Martin Eden is one of them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As I said, I am an individualist, and individualism is the hereditary and eternal foe of socialism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)