liberalism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Circa 1819, from French libéralisme circa 1818. Equivalent to liberal + -ism.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɪ.bɹə.lɪz.əm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]liberalism (countable and uncountable, plural liberalisms)
- The quality of being liberal.
- (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.
- 2009 January 25, Timothy Garton Ash, “A Liberal Translation”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.
- 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University[2], archived from the original on 25 January 2025, page 142:
- 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.
- (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
- 2018, Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century:
- But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]quality of being liberal
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political movement
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economic theory
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French libéralisme. Equivalent to liberal + -ism.
Noun
[edit]liberalism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | liberalism | liberalismul |
| genitive-dative | liberalism | liberalismului |
| vocative | liberalismule | |
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, liberal + -ism
Noun
[edit]liberalism c
- liberalism; quality of being liberal; political movement based on personal freedom
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | liberalism | liberalisms |
| definite | liberalismen | liberalismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “liberalism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “liberalism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “liberalism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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