anticensorship
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- noun
- /ˌæn.tiˈsɛn.sər.ʃɪp/
- The documentary highlighted the importance of anticensorship efforts in protecting freedom of speech.
Examples
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The anticensorship movement advocates for the right to express opinions freely without government interference.
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Several psychological studies, as well as some anticensorship feminist writings, have already argued that there is no definite correlation between consumption of pornography and physical violence.
Academic text (2006) -
In this sense, then, avoidance of controversy appears to serve a "professional objectivity" function—and hence an anticensorship function.
Academic text (1999) -
Many artists joined the anticensorship campaign to fight against restrictions on creative expression.
Synonyms
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The right to say what you think in public without the government stopping you
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The right to say what you think without fear of government punishment
Antonyms
How Censorious
Surface Forms
Morphology
anticensorship = censorship (transparent) = anti + censor + ship
The meaning is directly compositional: 'anti-' expresses opposition to censorship.
Etymology
Anticensorship combines anti- ('against') and censorship ('cutting out parts of books, films, or speech'), like the simple word censor. As a noun, anticensorship means the belief or movement that supports free expression and opposes hiding or removing information.