Liberalism

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being liberal.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market.
 * 1) An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market.

Adjectives for Liberalism
militant; enlightened; extreme; journalistic.

Verbs for Liberalism
absorb—; adopt—; advocate—; convert to —; criticize—; crusade for—; cultivate—; endanger—; exercise—; inculcate—; interpret—; plant—; plead for—; restrain—; scorn—; stifle—; stimulate—; unite in—; "weaken—; —affords; —aims at; —emerges from; —involves; —prevails; —thrives.

Thesaurus
broad-mindedness, capitalism, catholicity, free competition, free enterprise, free thought, free trade, freethinking, isolationism, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitudinarianism, left, left wing, leftism, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarianism, libertinism, noninterference, nonintervention, open-mindedness, progressivism, self-regulating market, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness

Etymology
c. 1819, from liberalisme: c. 1818

Translations

 * Arabic: ليبرالية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自由主義, 自由主义
 * Finnish: vapaamielisyys
 * French: libéralisme
 * German: Liberalismus
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 自由主義
 * Korean: 자유주의 (自由主義)
 * Russian: либерализм
 * Spanish: liberalismo
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tự do (主義自由)


 * Arabic: ليبرالية
 * Armenian:, ազատականություն
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 自由主義, 自由主义
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: liberalisme
 * Finnish: liberalismi
 * French: libéralisme


 * German:
 * Hungarian: liberalizmus
 * Japanese: 自由主義
 * Korean: 자유주의 (自由主義)
 * Russian: либерализм
 * Spanish: liberalismo
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa tự do (主義自由)
 * Yiddish: ליבעראליזם


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:


 * Finnish: liberalismi
 * Swedish: nyliberalism, marknadsliberalism

Noun

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

Related terms

 * nyliberalism
 * marknadsliberalism
 * liberal