Liberalism vs Absolutism - What's the difference?
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The quality of being liberal.
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.
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An economic theory in favour of laissez faire and the free market.
(theology) Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
(political science) The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.
:* The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. - Palfrey
(philosophy) Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
(lb) The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
* 2003 , Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language (ISBN 0226903184):
As nouns the difference between liberalism and absolutism
is that liberalism is the quality of being liberal while absolutism is doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.liberalism
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(en noun)- It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.