Synonyms for Emancipation
ɪˌmæn səˈpeɪ ʃəneman·ci·pa·tion

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1. emancipation

   In general terms, it may be said that freedom is absolute, liberty relative; freedom is the absence of restraint, liberty is primarily the removal or avoidance of restraint; in its broadest sense, it is the state of being exempt from the domination of others or from restricting circumstances. Freedom and liberty are constantly interchanged; the slave is set at liberty, or gains his freedom; but freedom is the nobler word. Independence is said of states or nations, freedom and liberty of individuals; the independence of the United States did not secure liberty or freedom to its slaves. Liberty keeps quite strictly to the thought of being clear of restraint or compulsion; freedom takes a wider range, applying to other oppressive influences; thus, we speak of freedom from annoyance or intrusion. License is, in its limited sense, a permission or privilege granted by adequate authority, a bounded liberty; in the wider sense, license is an ignoring and defiance of all that should restrain, and a reckless doing of all that individual caprice or passion may choose to do — a base and dangerous counterfeit of freedom. Compare ALLOW; PERMISSION.

   Synonyms:
   freedom, independence, liberty, license

   Antonyms:
   captivity, compulsion, constraint, imprisonment, necessity, obligation, oppression, serfdom, servitude, slavery, superstition, thraldom

Princeton's WordNet

1. emancipationnoun

   freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

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1. • Liberation

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1. emancipationadjective

   Synonyms:
   enfranchisement, manumission, liberation, release, deliverance

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1. List of paraphrases for "emancipation":

   empowerment, enfranchisement, liberation, liberating, liberate

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1. Emma Goldman:

   Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

2. Rabindranath Tagore:

   Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

3. Eleanor Holmes Norton:

   Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows, the statue fails to depict how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. At the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, it ‘showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.’.

4. Ron Johnson:

   In response to a bipartisan effort to give federal workers another day of paid leave by designating Juneteenth a federal holiday, we have offered a counterproposal that does not put us further in debt, we support celebrating emancipation with a federal holiday, but believe we should eliminate a current holiday in exchange. We chose Columbus Day as a holiday that is lightly celebrated, and least disruptive to Americans’ schedules.

5. Sondra Theodore:

   Because Hugh Hefner and Hugh Hefner Playboy, for better or for worse, shaped Both Theodore and Garcia ideas of what sexual liberation, emancipation and freedom looks like for the women of Both Theodore and Garcia generation, and Both Theodore and Garcia never examined that or thought critically about Hugh Hefner Playboy, and the more I did this series, the more I talked to these women, the more I realized they had become trapped inside this idea of liberation that Hugh Hefner had constructed.