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What does individualism mean?

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Noun
  1. The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought.
  2. The moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook that promotes independence and self-reliance of individual people, while opposing the interference with each person's choices by society, the state, or any other group or institution.
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Many of its adherents promoted the individualism and lay preaching that Edwards so deplored.
The original Western nineteenth-century route to modernization was associated with laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and democracy.
Where is the new thinking on questions of individualism, collectivism, consumerism, choice and equity?
Authoritative parents respect children's individualism while insisting they meet reasonable requirements.
Opposed is the apparent liberalism, individualism and anarchy on offer in a postmodern world.
Fascism explicitly repudiated the bourgeois individualism that it associated with liberalism.

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