freethinking

1. 1.

   the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

   Synonymsrationalism

   Broaderdoctrine

Other forms of freethinking

plural

freethinkings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about freethinking

What does freethinking mean?

freethinking means "the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct".

How many syllables are in freethinking?

freethinking has 3 syllables: free-thin-king. The stress falls on "free".

What is another word for freethinking?

Close synonyms include rationalism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freethinking a common word?

freethinking 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.