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privatism

Noun

Meaning

privatism (countable and uncountable, plural privatisms)

Concern only with issues inasmuch as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. [from 20th c.]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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The overall system of a sizeable community struggling to survive in a crowded world may be either socialism or privatism. Either system may work, more or less. But, except in non-critical areas of distribution, commonism cannot possibly work for very long. Garrett Hardin

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