How would you describe someone who doesn't worry about what other people think? Someone who has the confidence to think for themselves. It could be a quality or adjective. One word preferred
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1Voting to close as general reference. OP includes two viable options (independent and confident) and can find countless more by using a thesaurus.– user13141Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 21:12
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Related (very): Appropriate word for someone immune to embarrassment?– Mari-Lou ACommented Jun 17, 2016 at 7:30
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Maverick was popular in the last U.S. presidential election cycle, though the candidates to whom it was applied would probably not be called free spirited or nonconformist, which have whimsical and countercultural connotations respectively.
If individual always acts without external input, I'd call him or her a lone wolf.
If s/he simply can't be bothered with external input, nonchalant.
If s/he wants to strike down convention actively, iconoclastic.
Idiomatically, he "marches to his own beat."
Self-assured would also work in this context. Self-assured can have either either positive (he is confident) or negative (he is deluding himself) connotations.
answered Jan 10, 2012 at 21:00
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I don't know if I've ever met "self-assured" with a negative connotation.– MarthaªCommented Jan 10, 2012 at 21:17
One cliche answer is free spirit, or simply spirited. In some contexts, perhaps irreverent.
Apathetic, nonchalant, indifferent, detached, disinterested, unconcerned, oblivious, "cool."
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I would argue in context, all of these have negative connotations. Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 21:08
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Yeah, the only ones of these that could possibly have positive connotations are "nonchalant" and "cool", and the latter is (still) informal usage.– MarthaªCommented Jan 10, 2012 at 21:18