Rugged definition having a roughly broken rocky hilly or jagged surface.
Origin of the phrase rugged individualism.
A hardy self reliant independent person.
A more positive use of the term in britain came to be used with the writings of james elishama smith who was a millenarian and a.
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An advocate of rugged individualism as a social or economic ideal.
In the english language the word individualism was first introduced as a pejorative by utopian socialists such as the owenites in the late 1830s although it is unclear if they were influenced by saint simonianism or came up with it independently.