"individualistic" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more individualistic [comparative], most individualistic [superlative]
Etymology: From individualist + -ic or individual + -istic. Etymology templates: {{af|en|individualist|-ic}} individualist + -ic, {{af|en|individual|-istic}} individual + -istic Head templates: {{en-adj}} individualistic (comparative more individualistic, superlative most individualistic)
  1. More interested in individual people than in society as a whole. Categories (topical): Personality Translations (more interested in the individual than in society as a whole): individualista (Asturian), індывідуалісты́чны (indyvidualistýčny) (Belarusian), individualista (Catalan), individualistisk (Danish), individualistisch (Dutch), individualistlik (Estonian), individualistinen (Finnish), individualiste (French), individualista (Galician), individualistisch (German), individualista (Hungarian), individuālistisks (Latvian), angatakitahi (Maori), indywidualistyczny (Polish), individualista (Portuguese), индивидуалисти́ческий (individualistíčeskij) (Russian), индивидуалѝстичкӣ [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), individualìstičkī [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), individualista (Spanish), individualistisk (Swedish), індивідуалісти́чний (indyvidualistýčnyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Interested in oneself rather than others; egocentric.
    Sense id: en-individualistic-en-adj-cBjSlG36
  3. Having idiosyncratic behaviour or ideas.
    Sense id: en-individualistic-en-adj-7WNxbzF3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: anarcho-individualistic Related terms: individualism
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.