English words for 'The principles of a freethinker; freethinking.'
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noun
- (philosophy) The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.
- an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action
- (economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.
noun
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- freedom from normal restraints in conduct
- the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
- (geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
- (figurative) The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
- Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
- (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
- (geography) An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
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verb
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- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
- Initialism of freedom of belief.
- Initialism of flash of brilliance.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of fresh off the boat, a recent immigrant.
- (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.
- (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.
- (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
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noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
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noun
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- anything indispensable
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
noun
- (philosophy) Synonym of free will
- The status of an athlete as a free agent.
- (countable) The movement of an athlete to a team through this system.
- (sports) A system through which professional athletes are free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
- (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
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adj
- (philosophy) Relating to the doctrine of free will as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
- (originally US, politics) Relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; also, relating to a political party supporting libertarianism.
- (crosswording) Araucarian.
- Advocating liberty; also, having a relative tendency towards liberty.
noun
- someone who believes the doctrine of free will
- (chiefly Ireland, UK) An antiauthoritarian believer in left-libertarianism, a political doctrine that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
- (philosophy) A believer in the freedom of thinking beings to choose their own destiny (the doctrine of free will) as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined (the doctrine of necessity).
- (chiefly US) A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental intervention, oversight, and regulation, both in economic matters (that is, a belief in the free market) and in personal behaviour provided that no one's rights are threatened or violated.
- One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.
- (crosswording) An Araucarian.
- an advocate of libertarianism
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name
noun
- (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
- (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
- (uncountable) A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being free.
- (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
- The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access
- Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints
noun
- (philosophy) The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.
- an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action
- (economics, philosophy, politics) A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.
noun
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- freedom from normal restraints in conduct
- the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
- (geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
- (figurative) The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
- Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
- (photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
- (geography) An imaginary line (in the form of a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
- Initialism of freedom of belief.
- Initialism of flash of brilliance.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of fresh off the boat, a recent immigrant.
- (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.
- (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.
- (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
adj
name
noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
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adj
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- anything indispensable
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
noun
- (philosophy) Synonym of free will
- The status of an athlete as a free agent.
- (countable) The movement of an athlete to a team through this system.
- (sports) A system through which professional athletes are free to play for or sign a contract to play for any team.
- (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team
noun
- an adherent of philosophical pragmatism
- a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions
- One who acts in response to particular situations rather than upon abstract ideals; one who is willing to ignore their ideals to accomplish goals.
- One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
- (politics) An advocate of pragmatism.
- (linguistics, uncommon) One who studies pragmatics.
- One who belongs to the philosophic school of pragmatism; one who holds that the meaning of beliefs is the actions they entail, and that the truth of those beliefs consists in the actions they entail, successfully leading a believer to their goals.
adj
noun
name
noun
- (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
- (countable) The philosophical views of a particular thinker associated with the existentialist movement.
- (uncountable) A 20th-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices.
adj
- (philosophy) Relating to the doctrine of free will as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
- (originally US, politics) Relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; also, relating to a political party supporting libertarianism.
- (crosswording) Araucarian.
- Advocating liberty; also, having a relative tendency towards liberty.
noun
- someone who believes the doctrine of free will
- (chiefly Ireland, UK) An antiauthoritarian believer in left-libertarianism, a political doctrine that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
- (philosophy) A believer in the freedom of thinking beings to choose their own destiny (the doctrine of free will) as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined (the doctrine of necessity).
- (chiefly US) A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental intervention, oversight, and regulation, both in economic matters (that is, a belief in the free market) and in personal behaviour provided that no one's rights are threatened or violated.
- One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.
- (crosswording) An Araucarian.
- an advocate of libertarianism
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being free.
- (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
- The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access
- Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints
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noun
- Initialism of freedom of belief.
- Initialism of flash of brilliance.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of fresh off the boat, a recent immigrant.
- (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.
- (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.
- (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
adj
name
adj
- (philosophy) Relating to the doctrine of free will as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.
- (originally US, politics) Relating to, or advocating, libertarianism; also, relating to a political party supporting libertarianism.
- (crosswording) Araucarian.
- Advocating liberty; also, having a relative tendency towards liberty.
noun
- someone who believes the doctrine of free will
- (chiefly Ireland, UK) An antiauthoritarian believer in left-libertarianism, a political doctrine that stresses both individual freedom and social equality, and advocates shared ownership of natural resources.
- (philosophy) A believer in the freedom of thinking beings to choose their own destiny (the doctrine of free will) as opposed to those who believe the future is predetermined (the doctrine of necessity).
- (chiefly US) A believer in right-libertarianism, a political doctrine that emphasizes individual liberty and a lack of governmental intervention, oversight, and regulation, both in economic matters (that is, a belief in the free market) and in personal behaviour provided that no one's rights are threatened or violated.
- One who advocates liberty, either generally or in relation to a specific issue.
- (crosswording) An Araucarian.
- an advocate of libertarianism