Synonyms:
individuality, individualism, individuation
Meaning: the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality"
Synonyms:
individualism
Meaning: a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
Synonyms:
individualism, laissez_faire
Meaning: the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Usage examples
Chapter II: Of Individualism In Democratic Countries
Chapter IV: That The Americans Combat The Effects Of Individualism By Free Institutions
Egotism blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtues of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright egotism.