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Meaning of unfreedom | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The condition of being unfree.
  2. A particular limitation of one's freedom.

Equivalents

Deutsch Unfreiheit
Português iliberdade
Svenska ofrihet

Examples

“A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.”
“It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.”
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
“She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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