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What is another word for individualists?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪndɪvˈɪd͡ʒuːəlˌɪsts] (IPA)

Individualists are those who value personal autonomy, independence and self-reliance. They are often seen as unique, independent and self-sufficient people. Synonyms for the word individualists include free thinkers, non-conformists, self-starters, self-reliant, self-sufficient, independent, self-determining, and self-governing. Other synonyms include mavericks, freethinkers, solitaries, and lone wolves. These words all describe someone who is unafraid to stand up for their beliefs and make their own decisions, even if they go against popular opinion. Ultimately, being an individualist means having the courage to be true to oneself, and to forge one's own path in life.
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What are the hypernyms for Individualists?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for individualists?

The word individualist refers to a person who values their independence and uniqueness. The antonyms for individualists are collectivists or conformists. A collective mindset prioritizes group goals over individual needs and desires, which is the opposite of an individualist. Conformists seek to fit in with the majority and behave like everyone else, while individualists seek to stand out and be different. Collectivists and conformists tend to view the world through the lens of their group, whereas individualists tend to look at things from their own perspective. Antonyms for individualists encompass ideas like conformity and group think, which are fundamentally opposed to the individualist philosophy.

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Usage examples for Individualists

They were individualists, these bourgeois from whom Mr. Spokesly came.
"Command"
William McFee
Then is nothing in my scheme which will bring it into collision either with Socialists of the State, or Socialists of the Municipality, with individualists or Nationalists, or any of the various schools of though in the great field of social economics- excepting only those anti-christian economists who hold that it is an offence against the doctrine of the survival of the fittest to try to save the weakest from going to the wall, and who believe that when once a man is down the supreme duty of a self-regarding Society is to jump upon him.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
The prosperous Socialists have homes exactly like yours and mine; and the poor Socialists are not allowed by the individualists to have any at all.
"Eugenics and Other Evils"
G. K. Chesterton

Famous quotes with Individualists

  • Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
    Ralph Allen
  • Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
    Jack Levine
  • In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • In recent centuries the only near spiritual relative of Tolstoy is the English poet, who in the fourteenth century, in the form of Piers Plowman, preached religious ideas so strikingly like those of Tolstoy. They are both individualists and they seek individual, not social, regeneration. ...Both point to the simple toiling God-fearing peasant as one expressing the ideal of the Christian life and service.
    Robert Hunter (author)
  • The most constructive of the anarchists were, socially speaking, individualists, peaceful and harmless. The least constructive, socially speaking, were dedicated to the overthrow of force by counter force. But without exception, in the realm of economics every anarchist comes unglued.
    Robert LeFevre

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