unfreedom
nounEtymology
From Middle English unfredom, equivalent to un- + freedom.
- inherited from unfredom
Definitions
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.
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
- antonymfreedom
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