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personalism

[ pur-suh-nl-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  2. Psychology. an approach stressing individual personality as the central concern of psychology.


personalism

/ ˈɜːəəˌɪə /

noun

  1. a philosophical movement that stresses the value of persons
  2. an idiosyncratic mode of behaviour or expression
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌDzԲˈپ, adjective
  • ˈDzԲ, nounadjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • sDz·· noun
  • ȴDz··t adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of personalism1

First recorded in 1840–50; personal + -ism
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Since he makes it all about himself, we need to shun personalism and charisma in our ranks and make innocuous policy engineers and personnel managers like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies the faces of the Democratic Party.

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Liberals dislike personalism, preferring to place policies before personalities.

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But ruling party personalism helps elected leaders undercut these protective guardrails.

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One of the best moments of analysis comes in the discussion of Day and “personalism,” a philosophy that “insisted that each of us, driven by love, had the power to change the world simply by changing ourselves.”

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Personalism can succeed when the movement fails.

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