freedom

n

1. liberty, autonomy, sovereignty; independence, self-determination, self-direction, self-government.

2. liberation, emancipation, manumission, disenthrallment, decolonization; release, relief from, riddance from, deregulation, decontrol; discharge, non-confinement, parole, furlough.

3. latitude, range, elbowroom, Lebenstraum; scope, play, swing, margin, discretion, wide berth, rope; nonintervention, noninterference, laissez faire; laxity, looseness, abandon, unrestraint, lawlessness; licentiousness, profligacy.

4. free will, volition, will, Psychol. conation, velleity; noncoercion, noncompulsion; choice, option, preference, alternative.

5. privilege, prerogative, right, authority; exemption, exception, immunity; license, franchise, authorization; unrestricted use, blanket permission, unconditional authority, carte blanche, Sl. the run of the place.

6. leisure, free time, spare time, It. dolce far niente; idleness, otiosity, idle hours, time on one's hands.

7. frankness, openness, sincerity, 'candor, candidness; informality, unceremoniousness, casualness; unrestraint, unreservedness, unconstraint; naturalness, artlessness, ingenuousness, outspokenness, downrightness, directness, bluntness.

8. overfamiliarity, disrespect, impertinence, impudence; forwardness, presumption, arrogance; impropriety, unseemliness, indecorum.