unfreedom

English edit

unfreedom (countable and uncountable, plural unfreedoms)

(uncountable) The condition of being unfree.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.
- 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 528:
  She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.
(countable) A particular limitation of one's freedom.
- 2003, Matthew H. Kramer, The Quality of Freedom, →ISBN, page 340:
  Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.

the condition of being unfree