unfreedom

noun

Etymology

From Middle English unfredom, equivalent to un- + freedom.

  1. inherited from unfredom

Definitions

  1. The condition of being unfree.

    • A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.
    • It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.
    • We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
  2. A particular limitation of one's freedom.

    • Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfreedom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA