Liberation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lib=er=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Liberation, n. [L. liberatio: cf. F. libération. Cf. Livraison.].

 The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.  [1913 Webster]
"This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Liberation, n. the act or an instance of liberating; the state of being liberated.

Idiom

liberation theology a theory which interprets liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation.

Derivative

liberationist n.

Etymology

ME f. L liberatio f. liberare: see LIBERATE

THESAURUS

Liberation

abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement, enfranchising, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, filching, flight, fraud, free thought, freeing, freethinking, getaway, graft, issuance, issue, jailbreak, latitudinarianism, leak, leakage, liberalism, libertarianism, libertinism, lifesaving, lifting, loosing, open-mindedness, outlet, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, prisonbreak, ransom, recovery, redemption, release, releasing, rescue, rescuing, retrieval, riddance, salvage, salvation, saving, scrounging, setting-free, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thievery, thieving, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness, unchaining, unfettering, unshackling, vent

ROGET THESAURUS

Liberation

Escape

N escape, scape, avolation, elopement, flight, evasion, retreat, narrow escape, hairbreadth escape, close call, come off, impunity, loophole, path, refuse, vent, vent peg, safety valve, drawbridge, fire escape, reprieve, liberation, refugee, escaping, escaped, stolen away, fled, the bird has flown the coop.

Deliverance

N deliverance, extrication, rescue, reprieve, reprieval, respite, liberation, emancipation, redemption, salvation, riddance, gaol delivery, redeemableness, saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable, Int, to the rescue!.

Liberation

N liberation, disengagement, release, enlargement, emancipation, disenthrallment, disenthralment, affranchisement, enfranchisement, manumission, discharge, dismissal, deliverance, redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution, acquittal, escape, liberated, out of harness, Int, unhand me!, let me go!.