open society

1. 1.

   a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy)

   “America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists”

   Broadersociety

Questions about open society

What does open society mean?

open society means "a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy)".

Is open society a common word?

open society 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.