The rights and abilities to do what you want without being stopped, controlled, or forced by others.
From Old English 'freodom' combining 'freo' (free) and 'dom' (state/condition). The '-dom' suffix appears in words like kingdom and wisdom, always meaning 'the state of being.'
The Five Freedoms in the First Amendment—speech, religion, assembly, petition, and press—were written as plural 'freedoms' because they knew each specific freedom had to be protected separately!
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