liberty

n

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

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

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

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; sanction, vouchsafement, permission, unconditional authority, carte blanche, Sl. the run of the place.

6. overfamiliarity, disrespect, impertinence, sauciness, Inf. sauce, impudence, insolence, Inf. brass, Inf. cheek; boldness, temerity, audacity, effrontery, gall, Sl. crust, Inf. nerve; forwardness, presumption, pre-sumptuousness, arrogance; impropriety, unseemliness, indecorum.