say it: in-di-vi-DOO-uh-liz-uhm
individualism is a noun meaning "the quality of being individual". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the quality of being individual
“so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality”
a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for individualism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.