liberalism

English

Etymology

Circa 1819, from French libéralisme circa 1818.

Noun

liberalism (countable and uncountable, plural liberalisms)

1. The quality of being liberal.
2. (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 New York Times‎^[1]:

     Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.

3. (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

• economic liberalism

Translations

quality of being liberal

• Arabic: لِيبْرَالِيَّة f (librāliyya)
• Catalan: liberalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由主義／自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì), 自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì)

• Estonian: liberalism (et)
• Finnish: vapaamielisyys (fi)
• French: libéralisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ლიბერალობა (liberaloba), ლიბერალიზმი (liberalizmi)
• German: Liberalismus (de) m
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• Italian: liberalismo (it)
• Japanese: 自由主義 (ja) (じゆうしゅぎ, jiyūshugi)
• Korean: 자유주의 (ko) (jayujuui) (自由主義 (ko))
• Polish: liberalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: liberalismo (pt) m
• Russian: либерали́зм (ru) m (liberalízm)
• Spanish: liberalismo (es) m
• Swedish: liberalism (sv) c
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tự do (vi) (主義自由)

political movement

• Albanian: liberalizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: لِيبْرَالِيَّة f (librāliyya)
• Aragonese: liberalismo m
• Armenian: լիբերալիզմ (hy) (liberalizm), ազատականություն (hy) (azatakanutʻyun)
• Asturian: lliberalismu m
• Azerbaijani: liberalizm
• Belarusian: лібералі́зм m (libjeralízm)
• Bengali: উদারনীতিবাদ (udarnitibad)
• Bulgarian: либерали́зъм (bg) m (liberalízǎm)
• Burmese: လစ်ဘရယ်ဝါဒ (lacbha.raiwada.)
• Catalan: liberalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由主義／自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì), 自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì)

• Czech: liberalizmus (cs) m
• Danish: liberalisme (da)
• Dutch: liberalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: liberalismo (eo)
• Estonian: liberalism (et)
• Finnish: liberalismi (fi)
• French: libéralisme (fr) m
• Galician: liberalismo (gl) m
• Georgian: ლიბერალიზმი (liberalizmi)
• German: Liberalismus (de) m
• Greek: φιλελευθερισμός (el) m (fileleftherismós)
• Hebrew: לִיבֶּרָלִיזְם (he) m (liberalízm)
• Hindi: उदारतावाद m (udārtāvād)
• Hungarian: liberalizmus (hu)
• Ido: liberalismo (io)
• Irish: liobrálachas m
• Italian: liberalismo (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: liberalizim
• Japanese: 自由主義 (ja) (じゆうしゅぎ, jiyūshugi)
• Kazakh: либерализм (liberalizm)
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• Khmer: សេរីនិយម (seerəy niyum)
• Korean: 자유주의 (ko) (jayujuui) (自由主義 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: либерализм (liberalizm)
• Lao: ເສຣີນິຍົມ (sē rī ni nyom), ເສລີນິຍົມ (sē lī ni nyom)
• Latvian: liberālisms m
• Lithuanian: liberalizmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: либерализам m (liberalizam)
• Malagasy: liberalisma (mg)
• Malay: liberalisme
• Mirandese: liberalismo m
• Mongolian: либерализм (mn) (liberalizm)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: liberalisme (no) m

• Persian: لیبرالیسم (fa) (liberâlism)
• Polish: liberalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: liberalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: liberalism (ro) n
• Russian: либерали́зм (ru) m (liberalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: либералѝзам m

  Roman: liberalìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: liberalizmus m
• Slovene: liberalizem (sl) m
• Spanish: liberalismo (es) m
• Swedish: liberalism (sv) c
• Tajik: либерализм (liberalizm)
• Thai: เสรีนิยม (th) (sěe-rii-ní-yom)
• Turkish: liberalizm (tr)
• Turkmen: liberalizm
• Ukrainian: лібералі́зм (uk) m (liberalízm)
• Uzbek: liberalizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tự do (vi) (主義自由)
• Yiddish: ליבעראַליזם (liberalizm)

economic theory

• Armenian: լիբերալիզմ (hy) (liberalizm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由主義／自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì), 自由主义 (zh) (zìyóuzhǔyì)

• Czech: liberalizmus (cs) m
• Finnish: liberalismi (fi)
• Galician: liberalismo (gl) m
• Greek: φιλελευθερισμός (el) m (fileleftherismós)
• Polish: liberalizm (pl) m
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• Portuguese: liberalismo (pt) m
• Russian: либерали́зм (ru) m (liberalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: либералѝзам m

  Roman: liberalìzam (sh) m

• Spanish: liberalismo (es) m
• Swedish: nyliberalism c, marknadsliberalism (sv) c

See also

• free market

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Swedish

Noun

liberalism c

1. liberalism; quality of being liberal; political movement based on personal freedom

Declension

Declension of liberalism
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	liberalism	liberalismen	—	—
Genitive	liberalisms	liberalismens	—	—

Related terms

• liberal