freethinking

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
freethinking
    n 1: the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating
         conduct [syn: {rationalism}, {freethinking}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Freethinking \Free"think`ing\, n.
   Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. --Berkeley.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
free-thinking \free-thinking\ adj.
   inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon
   authority, especially about social and religious issues;
   exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.

   Syn: latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical.
        [WordNet 1.5 + 1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "freethinking":
      broad-minded, broad-mindedness, catholicity, free thought,
      humanism, latitudinarian, latitudinarianism, liberal, liberalism,
      liberalistic, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarian,
      libertarianism, libertine, libertinism, open-minded,
      open-mindedness, secular humanism, tolerance, tolerant, toleration,
      unbigoted, unbigotedness
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