liberation
Meanings
Plural: liberations
Noun
- the act of liberating someone or something
- the attempt to achieve equal rights or status
- "she worked for women's liberation"
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
- Synonym of conquest or theft.
- The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate.
Synonyms
conquest or theft, discharge, dismissal, dismission, emancipation, firing, freeing, independence, release, sack, sacking
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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