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Leisure vs Freedom - What's the difference?

leisure | freedom |

As nouns the difference between leisure and freedom

is that leisure is freedom provided by the cessation of activities while freedom is (uncountable) the state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

leisure

English

Noun

  • Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
  • Time free from work or duties.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 11
  • Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
  • * 1908 , William David Ross (translator), Aristotle,
  • This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure .
  • Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
  • * Dryden
  • He sighed, and had no leisure more to say.

    See also

    * ease * recreation

    freedom

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
  • (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
  • Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
  • * Milton
  • I emboldened spake and freedom used.
  • Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
  • Usage notes

    * The phrase "freedom from" can have as an object: fear, want, hunger, pain, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc.

    Synonyms

    * liberty * license * exemption

    Antonyms

    * bondage * constraint

    Derived terms

    * academic freedom * degree of freedom * economic freedom * financial freedom * freedom fighter * freedom fries * freedom march * freedom of assembly * freedom of association * freedom of contract * freedom of expression * freedom of movement * freedom of petition * freedom of religion * freedom of speech * freedom of the air * freedom of the press * freedom of the seas * freedom ride * freedom rider * freedom to roam * individual freedom * let freedom ring * political freedom * unfreedom * non-freedom