unfreedom
1
8.6
- noun
- /ʌnˈfriːdəm/
- Formal
:
falta de libertad
- He has this very vivid description of what he means by unfreedom, the antithesis of his his ideal.
- freedom and unfreedom
And in terms of, of, of the broad framework of, of rights, you know, one person's freedom is another person's unfreedom.
- And in terms of, of, of the broad framework of, of rights, you know, one person's freedom is another person's unfreedom.
Examples
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It was the experience of unfreedom, in the gospel's light, that made the contrary shine clear.
Academic text (1993) -
Rather, the freedom of one individual is defined as the unfreedom of another.
Academic text (1990) -
Freedom and unfreedom, whether physical, political, moral, economic, or some other, are simply not issues for him and have no significant place among his concerns.
Academic text (2000) -
We have all sorts of experiences that seem to indicate to us a kind of unfreedom in, in our own lives.
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How we do so determines our degrees of freedom and unfreedom.
Academic text (1999) -
And you know that they could have never held people here surrendered to unfreedom.
Fiction book (1998) -
Finally, sealing all by fire was the experience of religious unfreedom under the terrible dictatorships of the 20th century.
Academic text (1993) -
Hegel recognized that backwaters of unfreedom would remain in the world for a long time, but he argued that eventually freedom would spread everywhere.
Academic text (2000) -
But of course this is no impediment to our inquiry concerning the implications of Sextus' views for thinking about freedom and unfreedom.
Academic text (2000) -
In the oppressive regime, many citizens lived in a state of unfreedom where their choices were strictly controlled.
Antonyms
How Unfree
- NSFW
17
6.3
120
5.5
- Formal
1
8.6
340
3.0
167
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unfreedom is made of the prefix un- meaning 'not' and freedom meaning 'the state of being free'. Think of a closed door or locked hands that stop you moving. So unfreedom means a situation where people cannot choose or act freely.