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Meaning of privatism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Deutsch Privatismus

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

privatissimum Privative privative a privative adjective privative case Privatively