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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution;

2. an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Liberalism \Lib"er*al*ism\ (-[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F. lib['e]ralisme.] Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

liberalism n 1: a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution 2: an economic theory advocating free competition and a self- regulating market
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "liberalism": broad-mindedness, capitalism, catholicity, free competition, free enterprise, free thought, free trade, freethinking, isolationism, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, latitudinarianism, left, left wing, leftism, let-alone policy, let-alone principle, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarianism, libertinism, noninterference, nonintervention, open-mindedness, progressivism, self-regulating market, tolerance, toleration, unbigotedness