Liberalism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈlɪ.b(ə.)ɹə.lɪz.əm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Liberalism is a noun meaning The quality of being liberal.
Meaning
The quality of being liberal.
More Meanings
- (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
- (politics) 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.
Example Sentences
Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.
But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.
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.
Word Forms
- liberalisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include liberalization, liberalisation, deregulation, liberal, united, openness.
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