unfreedom
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
unfreedom (countable and uncountable, plural unfreedoms)
- (uncountable) The condition of being unfree.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.
- 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 528:
- She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.
- (countable) A particular limitation of one's freedom.
- 2003, Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, →ISBN, page 340:
- Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.
Synonyms[edit]
- (condition of being unfree): illiberty, slavery
- (limitation): restriction
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the condition of being unfree
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