EGAVE

liberalism

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 6.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The quality of being liberal.
  2. 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.
  3. noun An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
  4. 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.

Similar words

liberalization liberalisation deregulation liberal united openness liberality freedom progressivism progressiveness

Often followed by

and in of is was as has that to

Word family

Liberalism Liberalisms liberal liberalisation liberalise liberalised liberalises liberalising liberalisms liberalist

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