FREETHINKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freethinking mean? 

• FREETHINKING (noun)
  The noun FREETHINKING has 1 sense:

1. the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

  Familiarity information: FREETHINKING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREETHINKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

freethinking; rationalism

Hypernyms ("freethinking" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)

 Context examples 

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)