liberation

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. (countable, euphemistic, ironic, uncountable) Synonym of conquest or theft.
3. (countable, uncountable) The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.

Synonyms

release

deliverance

emancipation

freedom

freeing

discharge

escape

acquittal

independence

setting free

exemption

rescue

redemption

separation

relief

extrication

firing

sack

sacking

salvation

free

🆓

exoneration

dismission

dismissal

unleashing

untie

granting immunity

Nirvana

release from human affairs

being let loose

absolution

jail delivery

acquittance

cleansing

deallocation

disengagement

disentanglement

dispensation

emanation

emancipate

emancipatory

extricate

immunity

lixiviation

manumission

nirvana

parole

postage

precipitation

quittance

Translations

libération

liberazione

liberación

émancipation

Befreiung

απελευθέρωση

affranchissement

bevrijding

liberação

exonération

خلاص

licenciement

alliberament

Entlassung

تحرير

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate. Equivalent to liberate + -ion.