Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

privatism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pri-vatism
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism."
"What Habermas describes as ‘family-vocational privatism’, which is similar to what Williams (1983) recognizes as ‘mobile privatism’, can be considered in terms of a category of ‘self-seeking privatism’ (Lodziak, 1996), which is pursued by those for whom capitalism ‘pays off’ in terms of status, financial rewards and so on […]"

Etymology

From private + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: private

Usage

Inflected Forms

privatisms (plural)

Questions

What does privatism mean?: Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.
Where does privatism come from?: From private + -ism.

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