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free|dom

Noun [MASS NOUN]

-The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants: we do have some freedom of choice

 

[COUNT NOUN]: he talked of revoking some of the freedoms

-Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government:

he was a champion of Irish freedom. 

 

-Ex: the prisoners made a desperate bid for freedom

 

liberty, liberation, release, emancipation, deliverance, delivery, discharge, non-confinement, extrication; amnesty, pardoning historical: manumissionrare: disenthralment

 

[ANTONYMS] captivity

 

-Ex: a national revolution was the only path to freedom

independence, self-government, self-determination, self-legislation, self rule, home rule, sovereignty, autonomy, autarky, democracy; self-sufficiency, individualism, separation, non-alignment; emancipation, enfranchisement

historical: manumission

 

[ANTONYMS] dependence

 

-Ex: they want freedom from local political accountability

exemption, immunity, dispensation, exception, exclusion, release, relief, reprieve, absolution, exoneration; impunity informalletting off, a let-off

rare: derogation

 

[ANTONYMS] liability