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personalism

Syllabification: (per·son·al·ism)

Definition of personalism

noun

  • the quality of being personal, especially a theory or system based on subjective ideas or applications:his sculpture investigating pure form from which all expressive personalism was eliminated
  • Philosophy a system of thought that maintains the primacy of the human or divine person on the basis that reality has meaning only through the conscious mind.
  • allegiance to a person, especially a political leader, rather than to a party or ideology.

Derivatives

personalist

noun

personalistic


adjective

personalism in other Oxford dictionaries

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