Noun: liberalism
| Singular | liberalism |
| Plural | liberalisms |
Sample Sentences
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Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute. [2009 January 25, Timothy Garton Ash, “A Liberal Translation”, in The New York Times:]
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This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative. [2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 142:]
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But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption. [2018, Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century:]
Nouns inflected like liberalism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Circa 1819, from French libéralisme circa 1818. Equivalent to liberal + -ism. See: French Nouns '
libéralisme'.
Verbs referencing "liberalism"
Dutch Nouns
liberalisme, Greek Nouns
φιλελευθερισμός.