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Definition of Privatism
1. Noun. The social position of being concerned with issues only as far as they affect one as an individual ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Privatism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privatism
Literary usage of Privatism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Force on the Left: Tom Hayden and the Campaign Against Corporate America by John H. Bunzel (1983)
"and would haggle for hours over "the proper view toward North Korea's [Premier]
Kim II Sung" or whether it "constituted 'privatism' to close the door when ..."
2. In Whose Service?: Making Community Service Work for the Unemployed by Ivan Briscoe (1995)
"This psychological overhaul is the (often unspoken) assumption of many enthusiasts
for a form of National Service: without tackling the spread of privatism ..."
3. The City-Building Process: Housing and Services in New Milwaukee by Roger D. Simon (1996)
"7 The theme of privatism receives extensive treatment in Warner, 1968; see also
Warner, 1972: ch. 2. On the significance of the gridiron in Milw., ..."
4. Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Randolph Shipley Klein (1986)
"The controlling ethic was that of privatism wherein the individual sought to do
well for himself and the community benefited if sufficient numbers of its ..."
5. Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-century Philadelphia by Michael P. McCarthy (1987)
"Also, he says, it "shows how the city's general culture of privatism stopped a
universal public health program short of full realization. ..."
6. Oecd Territorial Reviews by Oecd (2001)
"First, "privatism" has produced a certain reluctance of the inhabitants of Bergamo
to see their land in terms of a system. A major challenge from outside, ..."
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