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intransigent (oh) and individualism (iou)


intransigent (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Spanish; Origin: intransigente, from transigir 'to accept less than you originally wanted']
unwilling to change your ideas or behaviour, in a way that seems unreasonable
-synonym stubborn stubborn
::an intransigent attitude
-- intransigence n [U]
::He accused the government of intransigence.

individualism (iou)



individualism noun. E19.
[from INDIVIDUAL + -ISM, after French individualisme.]
Self-centred feeling or conduct as a principle; a way of life in which an individual pursues his or her own ends or ideas; free and independent individual action or thought; egoism. E19.
W. Holtby Sarah could hardly forbear to cheer this triumph of co-operation over individualism. Sunday Times It is as though our youth do not have any individualismthey just follow the mob.
The social theory which advocates the free and independent action of the individual; laissez-faire. M19.
= INDIVIDUALITY 2,3. M19.
Blackwood's Magazine Their ideas of God did not possess that individualism and personality. P. Gay He is bound to be committed to individualism, to seek out what is unique.
Philosophy. The doctrine that reality is constituted of individual entities. Also, the doctrine that the self is the only knowable existence. rare. L19.
A characteristic or peculiarity of one person or thing. L19.
Biology. Symbiosis in which the product of the association appears to be a distinct organism, as in lichen. L19.
individualist noun & adjective (a) noun a person who takes an independent or egoistic course in thought or action; an adherent of individualism; (b) adjective = individualistic: M19.
individua'listic adjective of or pertaining to individualism or individualists; characterized by individualism: L19.
individua'listically adverb L19.