liberalism

1. (politics) Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.Examples: "Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute."; "This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative."countableuncountable

2. (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).Examples: "But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption."countableuncountable