freethinking
Speech parts
1. freethinking - Noun
2. freethinking - Adjective
Meaning
Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
Exhibiting undue boldness of speculation; skeptical.
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The philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that during his five years in Holland, Locke chose his friends "from among the same freethinking members of dissenting Protestant groups as Spinoza's small group of loyal confidants.
Like priestcraft, atheism, and freethinking, deism was one of the dirty words of the age.
She responded badly to formal education, preferring a freethinking outlook, and was drawn to art, a pursuit often regarded as peripheral at the time.