Synonyms for liberalism
ˈlɪb ər əˌlɪz əm, ˈlɪb rə-lib·er·al·ism

Princeton's WordNet

1. liberalismnoun

   a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

2. liberalismnoun

   an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market

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1. • Economic Theory
   • Political Orientation

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1. liberalismnoun

   Synonyms:
   latitudinarianism

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1. List of paraphrases for "liberalism":

   liberal, liberality, liberalisation, liberalization

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1. William Gladstone:

   Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

2. George Stanley McGovern:

   To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

3. Stone Fish:

   It’s very hypocritical in the sense that Hollywood likes to position itself as a bastion of liberalism but has completely erased Tibetans from its films and from its representation.

4. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

5. Turin Carter:

   It's an air of liberalism that's pushed and perceived mostly because of UW as being progressive in its history, but when you look at the capitol, things are a little different in terms of who's actually running the government.