liberalism

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being liberal.
2. (countable, uncountable)Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.

   “Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.”

   “This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative.”

3. (countable, uncountable)An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).

   “But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.”