Unfreedom
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The condition of being unfree. uncountable
"A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress."
- 2 A particular limitation of one's freedom. countable
"Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society."
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More examples"A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress."
Etymology
From un- + freedom.