freedom of thought

1. 1.

   the right to hold unpopular ideas

   Broaderhuman right

Questions about freedom of thought

What does freedom of thought mean?

freedom of thought means "the right to hold unpopular ideas".

Is freedom of thought a common word?

freedom of thought is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.