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means A person who holds personal independence and self-reliance above the claims of the group, and acts on that belief.

from Built from 'individual' (Latin individuus, 'not divisible' — in-, 'not,' plus dividuus, 'divisible,' from dividere, 'to divide') plus the '-ist' suffix marking a believer or practitioner. 'Individual' originally described anything indivisible — a unit, a single thing that couldn't be split further — before it narrowed to mean a single human being. 'Individualism' and 'individualist' emerged in the early 19th century, notably used by commentators like Tocqueville describing American society, often with a wary eye on what happens when 'indivisible' units stop seeing themselves as parts of a whole.