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Privatism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. countable, uncountable

    "Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism."

Etymology

From private + -ism.

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