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privatisms

privatisms is the plural of privatism.

Meaning of privatism

Noun

privatism (countable and uncountable, plural privatisms)

  1. Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.
    • Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 441

Questions about privatisms

What is privatisms the plural of?
Privatisms is the plural of privatism.

Words near privatisms in the dictionary

  1. privatiser
  2. privatisers
  3. privatises
  4. privatising
  5. privatism
  6. privatisms
  7. privatissima
  8. privatissimum
  9. privatissimums
  10. privative
  11. privative a

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