liberation
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate. Equivalent to liberate + -ion.
- borrowed from liberatio
- borrowed from libération
Definitions
The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- The liberation of American slaves was accomplished by the Department of War, that of British slaves by the Exchequer.
- People saw in the elders, who were closer to death, the manifestation of the divine force that was thought to achieve its full liberation at death.
Synonym of conquest or theft.
The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic…
The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.
- women's liberation... black liberation... gay liberation...
The neighborhood
- synonymemancipation
- synonymindependence
- antonymenslavement
- antonymoppression
- neighborliberate
Derived
animal liberation, antiliberation, black liberation, gay liberation, liberational, liberation day, liberationism, liberationist, liberation theology, male liberation, nonliberation, photoliberation, postliberation, preliberation, pseudoliberation, pseudo-liberation, queer liberation, war of liberation, women's liberation
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA