freedom
noun
[ ˈfriːdəm ]
• the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.
• "we do have some freedom of choice"
• the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
• "the shark thrashed its way to freedom"
Similar:
liberty,
liberation,
release,
emancipation,
deliverance,
delivery,
discharge,
non-confinement,
extrication,
amnesty,
pardoning,
manumission,
disenthralment,
• the state of not being subject to or affected by (something undesirable).
• "government policies to achieve freedom from want"
Similar:
exemption,
immunity,
dispensation,
exception,
exclusion,
release,
relief,
reprieve,
absolution,
exoneration,
impunity,
letting off,
a let-off,
derogation,
• a special privilege or right of access, especially that of full citizenship of a city granted to a public figure as an honour.
• "he accepted the freedom of the City of Glasgow"
• familiarity or openness in speech or behaviour.
Similar:
naturalness,
openness,
lack of reserve/inhibition,
casualness,
informality,
lack of ceremony,
spontaneity,
ingenuousness,
impudence,
familiarity,
overfamiliarity,
presumption,
forwardness,
cheek,
Origin:
Old English frēodōm (see free, -dom).
