liberalism
/ˈlɪ.b(ə.)ɹə.lɪz.əm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A school of international relations that emphasises cooperation (such as trade) between polities, as an alternative to power politics, and the geopolitically transformative role of democratisation, as opposed to inherent structural material factors.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute."
- "This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative."
- "But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: libéralisme