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What does liberalism mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality of being liberal.
  2. (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.
  3. (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
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Opposed is the apparent liberalism, individualism and anarchy on offer in a postmodern world.
Trial lawyers and MTV are bastions of liberalism and, therefore, kissing cousins.
Surges of fashionable liberalism such as latitudinarian complacency in the early part of the century drew the fire of much satirical scepticism.
Today's liberalism holds that remedial measures are necessary to compensate for past injustices.
What the lefties are referring to is economic liberalism, with its laissez-faire, free market principles.
But also costly figuratively, costly psychologically, because the new social lassitude associated with liberalism affronted cherished values.

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