uncoerced
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌʌnkoʊˈɜrst/
:
voluntario
- Scientists constitute a model of what Jurgen Habermas has called a communicative community: one that exists under the constraint of cooperation, trust, and truthfulness, and that is uncoerced in setting its goals and agenda.
- uncoerced consent
- uncoerced individuals
- informed and uncoerced
Examples
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Consent must be uncoerced and informed, and the benefits of any interventions must outweigh any harmful effects.
Academic text (2015) -
Once the institutional framework is in place, the uncoerced decisions of individuals about how their lives should run are to be respected.
Academic text (1999) -
Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
Blog text (8) -
Autonomy is more than just having the power to keep others from intervening in one's life without fully informed and uncoerced consent.
Academic text (1998) -
Unburdened by titles, power, and privilege, numerous uncoerced individuals could be entertained by the spectacle for as long as they wished.
Academic text (1995) -
One's autonomy does not derive from being rescued from one's culture or ethnic group but from the facilitation of free and uncoerced movement of the individual from one group to another.
Academic text (1993) -
Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift, a freely flowing, uncoerced act by the giver.
Blog text (16) -
Year by year, it has become clear that most Latin American elites, as well as the public at large, agree that government authority must derive from the uncoerced consent of the majority, tested regularly through fair, competitive, and broadly participatory elections.
Academic text (1993) -
The committee respected the participants' uncoerced choices during the survey.
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She felt empowered to make uncoerced decisions about her education.
Synonyms
28
7.3
Free from limits or rules
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4.9
Happens naturally without pressure or effort
3
6.1
Not limited or held back and able to act freely
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8.3
Free and not limited by rules
Not involving force, threats, or pressure to make someone do something
Natural and easy without showing effort
Not held back and showing strong feelings or energy
How Voluntary
Surface Forms
Morphology
uncoerced = coerced (transparent) = un + coerce + ed
The adjective 'coerced' simply receives the productive negative prefix 'un-' to yield 'not coerced', a regular negation.
Etymology
The word uncoerced is built from un- 'not' and coerce 'to force', where coerce once meant 'to hold in' or 'restrain'. So uncoerced means 'not forced', something done freely and without pressure.