Usually means: Preference for individual ownership, privacy.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. privatism: Merriam-Webster
  2. privatism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. privatism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. privatism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. privatism: Wiktionary
  6. privatism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. privatism: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. privatism: Dictionary.com
  9. Privatism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. privatism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. privatism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. privatism: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (privatism)

▸ noun:  Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.

Similar:
self-interest, self, particularism, individualism, special interest, personalist, egoism, hyperindividualism, individualist, prudentialist, more...

Opposite:
collectivism, socialism, public ownership

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Similar:
self-interest, self, particularism, individualism, special interest, personalist, egoism, hyperindividualism, individualist, prudentialist, more...

Opposite:
collectivism, socialism, public ownership



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