second-hander

Meaning

Noun

• A person who is primarily concerned with being esteemed and valued by others, at the expense of forming his/her own independent worldview. A person who derives their decisions from the worldview of others; with the sole metric of merit based off of how others will receive and accept their decision not based on merit or truth but on popular perception.

Origin

• second-hand + -er, coined by Ayn Rand.