Individualism
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought. The moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook that promotes independence and self-reliance of individual people, while opposing the interference with each person's choices by society, the state, or any other group or institution.
Example sentence: There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
Individuality
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.A person.
Example sentence: Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.