independence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=de=pend=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

independence, n. [Cf. F. indépendance.].

•  The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.  [1913 Webster]

  "Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence."  [1913 Webster]
•  Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.  [1913 Webster]

Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

independence, n.
1 (often foll. by of, from) the state of being independent.
2 independent income.

Idiom

Independence Day a day celebrating the anniversary of national independence, esp.
4 July in the US.

THESAURUS

independence

Communist threat, Declaration of Independence, Western imperialism, abstention, affluence, anythingarianism, aplomb, arrogance, assets, atrocity story, autarchy, autarky, autonomousness, autonomy, banner, battle hymn, bloody shirt, boastfulness, bottomless purse, bulging purse, colors, composure, conceit, confidence, constraint, control, cop-out, crostarie, disassociation, discipline, disconnection, discreteness, disjunction, disjuncture, dissociation, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, evasion, expansionism, face, fence-sitting, fiery cross, fortune, free will, freedom, gold, gonfalon, gratuitousness, handsome fortune, haughtiness, high income, high tax bracket, home rule, immateriality, impartiality, imperialist threat, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, inconnection, inconsequence, individualism, inner-direction, internationalism, internationality, irrelation, irrelevance, liberty, lucre, luxuriousness, mammon, manifest destiny, martial music, material wealth, money, money to burn, moneybags, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, national anthem, nationalism, nationality, nationhood, neutralism, neutrality, nonalignment, noncommitment, noninvolvement, nonpartisanism, nothingarianism, opulence, opulency, pardonable pride, pelf, peoplehood, possession, possessions, pride, pridefulness, property, prosperity, prosperousness, proudness, purse-pride, restraint, riches, richness, rugged individualism, self-action, self-activity, self-assurance, self-command, self-confidence, self-conquest, self-consequence, self-containment, self-control, self-denial, self-determination, self-direction, self-discipline, self-esteem, self-government, self-help, self-helpfulness, self-improvement, self-mastery, self-possession, self-reliance, self-respect, self-restraint, self-sufficiency, self-sustainment, separateness, six-figure income, sovereign nationhood, sovereignty, spontaneity, spontaneousness, statehood, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, strict neutrality, substance, treasure, unconnectedness, unforcedness, unrelatedness, upper bracket, vanity, voluntariness, voluntarism, voluntaryism, volunteer, volunteering, war song, wealth, wealthiness, yellow peril

ROGET THESAURUS

independence

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.

Wealth

N wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence, good circumstances, easy circumstances, independence, competence, solvency, provision, livelihood, maintenance, alimony, dowry, means, resources, substance, property, command of money, income, capital, money, round sum, mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado, bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi, long purse, full purse, well lined purse, heavy purse, deep pockets, purse of Fortunatus, embarras de richesses, pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre, loaves and fishes, rich man, moneyed man, warm man, man of substance, capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens, Timocracy, Plutocracy, Danae, wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much, well to do, well off, warm, comfortable, well, well provided for, made of money, rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew, rolling in riches, rolling in wealth, flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin, in funds, in cash, in full feather, solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight, one's ship coming in, amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout, love does much but money does everything, aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, magna servitus ist magna fortuna, mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven, opum furiata cupido, vera prosperita e non aver necessita, wie gewonnen so zerronnen.