Freedom Synonyms and Antonyms
frē'dəm
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Synonyms for Freedom
A right to engage in certain actions without control or interference by a government or other power:
A city of western Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. It was a starting point for the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails during the 1800s.
The principle of equality of rights, opportunity, and treatment, or the practice of this principle
A legal or moral entitlement.
The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence
own accord
Exemption from necessity
A basic civil right, guaranteed by a government
Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
The status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges.
The state or quality of being lax.
The characteristic or quality of being forthright
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Something chosen or available as a choice.
Self-government.
autarky
An enclosed ecosystem.
A permission granted by government to perform an act or service regulated by law (for example, a license to fish or to practice law).
Unrestricted power to act at one's own discretion; unconditional authority:
freedom-of-choice
Liberty of action
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right to decide
Liberty of action
Plural form of privilege
The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status.
Immunity is defined as being able to resist a disease or medical condition or the freedom from punishment.
An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.
Spontaneity is defined as the act or quality of acting without thinking in advance.
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Ample scope:
The act or power of making up one's own mind about what to think or do, without outside influence or compulsion
The definition of a release is a letting go, setting free or relief.
The act or manner of using a card, piece, or ball in a game or sport:
Any of a genus (Agrostis) of dense, low-growing perennial grasses that spread by putting out runners and are often used for lawns and golf greens
Room or opportunity for freedom of action or thought; free play
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The status, dominion, rule, or power of a sovereign
Government of a group by the action of its own members, as in electing representatives to make its laws
full play
Exemption from necessity
The state of being willing
Unrestrained freedom of action or emotion; surrender to one's impulses
The quality of having options. "I have some flexibility."
Political liberty
The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
Selection, array.
The investiture with any of several municipal privileges
Lack of restraint; the quality of being unrestrained.
A production quantity in a factory.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]
(Photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
plenty of rope
Exemption from necessity
A freeing or being freed from slavery; emancipation
(Ecclesiastical history) The principle that each individual religious congregation is from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.
Frankness or sincerity of expression; openness.
Plural form of franchise
Plural form of immunity
The process of removing constraints, especially government-imposed economic regulation.
(Literally uncountable) Good breeding; nobility of stock.
Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
Something indulged in:
unconstraint
Freedom from constraint.
Antonyms for Freedom
The state of being subjected.
heteronomy
The state of being beholden to external influences.
Slavery is someone owning another person.
Serfdom or slavery
One that restricts, limits, or regulates; a check:
Any person or thing that hinders; obstacle; impediment; obstruction
Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses.
The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.
(Psychology) The unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.
Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved:
The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
(Botany) The failure of an organ or part to develop.
A reservation of public land:
The definition of a subordination is a lower position than another, placement of a person to a lower position, or treatment as if they are in a lower position.
The definition of a restriction is a limitation.
A confinement in a place, especially a prison.
A restriction.
A legally enforceable obligation.
A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
Any theory or system characterized by the ownership or sharing of all property by the community as a whole
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(Hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
The power, right, or liberty to choose; option:
The condition of being restrained, especially the condition of losing one's freedom:
freedom of worship
An informal act
Ease of or space for movement
Relaxation, rest and leisure.
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- License implies freedom that consists in violating the usual rules, laws, or practices, either by consent poetic license or as an abuse of liberty slander is license of the tongue
- Liberty , often interchangeable with freedom , strictly connotes past or potential restriction, repression, etc. civil liberties
- Freedom , the broadest in scope of these words, implies the absence of hindrance, restraint, confinement, or repression freedom of speech
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