freeness
nounEtymology From free + -ness.
1
Usually The state or condition of being free (unconstrained, unconfined, unencumbered, unobstructed, or free-spirited).
- Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors.1722, Benjamin Franklin (as Silence Dogood), "Silence Dogood, No. 8", The New-England Courant, July 9, 1722
- Vern could appreciate his freeness. He was a spirited, buoyant thing.2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 163:
2
Usually Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor.
- The freeness of a confession.
3
Usually Liberality; generosity.
- The freeness in giving.
4
Usually Gratuitousness.
- The freeness of divine grace.
- Synonyms
- freedom
- Derived terms
- nonfreeness