individualist

individual +‎ -ist

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individualist (plural individualists)

1. Someone who believes in individualism as a sociopolitical system.
2. Someone who believes in the philosophy of individualism; a solipsist.
3. Someone who does as they wish, unconstrained by external influences.
   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     However, apart from all this, the Chief was a grand old man, belonging to a class of individualists which seems to be dying out in these days, when standard behaviour seems to be as prevalent as standard designs.

   • 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 18:

     Miró was too much of an individualist to simply subscribe to an aesthetic party platform of Mediterranean art, which wanted to move forward, but only at a safe trot.

• (someone who does as they wish): free spirit, heteroclite, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick

Borrowed from French individualiste. By surface analysis, individual +‎ -ist.

individualist m or n (feminine singular individualistă, masculine plural individualiști, feminine and neuter plural individualiste)

1. individualistic