Definition of Individualistic

1. Adjective. Marked by or expressing individuality. "An individualistic way of dressing"

Exact synonyms: Individualist
Similar to: Individual, Single
Derivative terms: Individualism

2. Adjective. With minimally restricted freedom in commerce.
Exact synonyms: Laissez-faire
Similar to: Capitalist, Capitalistic
Derivative terms: Individualism

Definition of Individualistic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism.

Definition of Individualistic

1. Adjective. More interested in individual people than in society as a whole ¹

2. Adjective. Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Individualistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Individualistic

individual retirement account
individual sport
individual therapy
individual tolerance
individual voluntary arrangement
individual voluntary arrangements
individualisation
individualisations
individualise
individualised
individualises
individualising
individualism
individualisms
individualist
individualistic (current term)
individualistically
individualists
individualities
individuality
individualizable
individualization
individualizations
individualize
individualized
individualizer
individualizers
individualizes
individualizing
individuall

Literary usage of Individualistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Economic Thought: A Critical Account of the Origin and by Lewis Henry Haney (1920)
"individualistic CRITICS THE relation of the individual to the state has from the ... They opposed that part of the individualistic tendency which leads to ..."

2. Introduction to Political Science: A Treatise on the Origin, Nature by James Wilford Garner (1910)
"The individualistic doctrine regards all restraint qua restraint as an evil and ... A noted Frenchman, Jules Simon, expressed the individualistic idea in ..."

3. Fundamentals of Child Study: A Discussion of Instincts and Other Factors in by Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick (1917)
"DEVELOPMENT OF individualistic INSTINCTS INTO MOTIVES The individualistic instincts, like all others, are at first blind. All the child's early movements ..."

4. Fundamentals of Child Study: A Discussion of Instincts and Other Factors in by Edwin Asbury Kirkpatrick (1903)
"DEVELOPMENT OF individualistic INSTINCTS INTO MOTIVES The individualistic instincts, like all others, are at first blind. All the child's early movements ..."

5. The Principles of Political Economy by Henry Sidgwick (1883)
"And many who are not socialists, regarding the stimulus and direction of energy given by the existing individualistic system as quite indispensable to human ..."

6. The State and the Church by John Augustine Ryan, Moorhouse F. X. Millar (1922)
"THE individualistic THEORY Inasmuch as- the State operates through the political organization ... The individualistic theory may be defined in general terms ..."

7. America and the New Epoch by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"in THE individualistic ERA: PROM COMPETITION TO CO-OPERATION THE epoch of ... Competition thus became the industrial expression of the individualistic era. ..."

8. Readings in Political Science by Raymond Garfield Gettell (1911)
"The individualistic theory. The nature of individualism and its relation to anarchism appear in the following :1 According to the individualistic school, ..."

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