unfreedom

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ freedom.

Noun

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unfreedom (countable and uncountable, plural unfreedoms)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being unfree.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      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.
    • 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 528:
      She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.
  2. (countable) A particular limitation of one's freedom.
    • 2003, Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, →ISBN, page 340:
      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.

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