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empowerment

empowerment

49 3.9
The process of becoming stronger, more confident, and able to make choices
  • noun
  • /ɪmˈpaʊərmənt/
translation icon : empoderamiento
  • Importantly, they were focused on issues of empowerment and cultural sensitivity.
  • sense of empowerment
  • women's empowerment
  • self-empowerment

And it's an age of empowerment and of freedom.

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Examples

  • You may feel a certain euphoria, a sense of empowerment.

  • The conference focused on the empowerment of marginalized communities through education and support.

  • And it's an age of empowerment and of freedom.

  • I mean, you talk about empowerment just by being who she is, by the way she is.

  • I am happy that I am providing so much empowerment and inspiration.

  • I got tremendous kind of empowerment from helping other people.

  • To achieve sustainability in resource management, the empowerment of local people is necessary.

    Academic text (2013)
  • You know, after all, the WI is about education and empowerment of women.

  • Welcome to the new era of the global women's empowerment platform.

  • The results indicate that many of the respondents used an empowerment-oriented approach to management.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

autonomy
vsempowerment
  • Formal
53 6.7

The right of a region or group to run its own government

describes becoming stronger and capable leading to independence

Antonyms

120 5.5

A cruel use of power to control and hurt people

How Empowered

self-determination
  • Formal
34 4.3
autonomy
28 5.7
confidence
456 2.1
empowerment
49 3.9
dependence
60 3.6

Surface Forms

empowerment singular
empowerments plural

Morphology

empowerment = empower (transparent) = em + power + ment

Derived by adding '-ment' to 'empower'; the sense of becoming stronger or more autonomous follows directly from 'empower'.

Etymology

Empowerment comes from the prefix em- meaning 'put into' and the word power meaning 'ability' or 'strength', so it means giving someone power or helping them feel stronger and more able, which is why we use it for the process of growing confidence, independence, or skills.