freethinker

English

Alternative forms

• free-thinker

Etymology

free +‎ thinker, since 1692.

Noun

freethinker (plural freethinkers)

1. A person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
2. (Singapore, Malaysia) A person with no religion.
   • 2015 April 6, Siau Ming En, “Religiosity on rise in Asia-Pacific, proportion of freethinkers on decline”, in Today Online‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 April 2015:

     The report projected that in the Asia-Pacific region, the proportion of freethinkers is projected to decline from 21 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2050.

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; agnostic,‎ Asatruar,‎ atheist,‎ Baháʼí,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Druze,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Rodnover,‎ Samaritan,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Yahwist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• freethinking
• freethought

Descendants

• Danish: fritænker (calque)
• French: libre-penseur (calque)
• German: Freidenker (calque)
  • Russian: вольноду́м (volʹnodúm), вольноду́мец (volʹnodúmec) (calque)

Translations

person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry

• Armenian: ազատամիտ (hy) (azatamit)
• Belarusian: вальнаду́мец m (valʹnadúmjec), вальнаду́мка f (valʹnadúmka)
• Danish: fritænker c
• Esperanto: liberpensulo
• Finnish: vapaa-ajattelija
• French: libre-penseur (fr) m, libre-penseuse (fr) f
• Galician: librepensador m, librepensadora f
• German: Freidenker (de) m, Freidenkerin (de) f
• Hungarian: szabadgondolkodó (hu)
• Italian: libero pensatore m, libero pensatrice f
• Kazakh: еркін ойлы (erkın oily)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritenker m

  Nynorsk: fritenkar m, fritenkjar m

• Polish: wolnomyśliciel (pl) m, wolnomyślicielka f
• Portuguese: livre-pensador m, livre-pensadora f
• Romanian: liber-cugetător (ro) m, liber-cugetătoare f
• Russian: вольнодумец (ru) m (volʹnodumec), свободомыслящий (ru) m (svobodomysljaščij)
• Spanish: librepensador (es) m, librepensadora (es) f
• Ukrainian: вільноду́мець m (vilʹnodúmecʹ), вільноду́мка f (vilʹnodúmka)