liberalism Definition
lib·er·al·ism (--iz′əm)
noun
the quality or state of being liberal; specif.,
- a political philosophy advocating personal freedom for the individual, democratic forms of government, gradual reform in political and social institutions, etc.
- a movement in Protestantism advocating a broad interpretation of the Bible, freedom from rigid doctrine and authoritarianism, etc.
liberalism Synonyms
liberalism
n.
liberalism Usage Examples
Converse of object
- reject: He also firmly rejected liberalism, including liberty of cult and expression, and rejected any unqualified belief in progress ( 77-80 ).
- see: All of us wish to see Liberalism re-united in a single party as soon as possible - and the larger that party the better!
- argue: This work also argues that liberalism - in practice an eminently flexible approach - cannot on its own explain policy.
- promote: What more would be worthwhile than a call to promote classical liberalism in Ghana and Africa?
- call: We don't want more conservatism in British politics; what we need is the third alternative called Liberalism.
- embrace: The views he rejected can be seen as simply an all embracing liberalism, including both the classical and revisionist variants.
Preposition: in
sense: To me liberalism in an absolute sense is merely a direction.
Adjective modifier
- egalitarian: Disputes about public policy toward the poor provide the clearest demonstration of the incompatibility between sectional anti-racism and egalitarian liberalism.
- bourgeois: The author dresses his bourgeois liberalism in a coat cut according to the latest fashion.
- classical: Yet the journal has always retained an evident strand of classical liberalism.
- theological: From questioning creeds, theological liberalism moved on to question ethical norms.
- secular: They have fostered a sense of moral disgust at the very ideas of secular American liberalism.
- economic: In short, the American version of economic liberalism with its culture industry.
Modifies a noun
cannot: Reassessing liberalism Government cannot afford to take sides in this battle.
Noun used with modifier
- neo: Neo liberalism is also a label that means nothing.
- laissez-faire: The first, ' Anglo-American capitalism ' , comes closer to the requirements of laissez-faire liberalism.
- market: I am currently exploring these in a graduate course entitled ' From social democracy to market liberalism ' .
- century: From then on for two centuries liberalism held sway over conservatism.
- trade: Impacts of agricultural trade liberalism in the Bolivian lowlands.
- neo-: Under neo- liberalism, individuals are only allowed to exercise their own autonomy in deal-making rather than through making things.
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