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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Freethinking \Free"think`ing\, n.
     Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. --Berkeley.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  free-thinking \free-thinking\ adj.
     inclined to forms one's own opinions rather than depend upon
     authority, especially about social and religious issues;
     exhibiting boldness of speculation; skeptical of authority.
  
     Syn: latitudinarian, undogmatic, undogmatical.
          [WordNet 1.5 + 1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  free-thinking
       adj : unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in
             religion) [syn: {latitudinarian}, {undogmatic}, {undogmatical}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  freethinking
       n : the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating
           conduct [syn: {rationalism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "freethinking":
     broad-minded, broad-mindedness, catholicity, free thought,
     humanism, latitudinarian, latitudinarianism, liberal, liberalism,
     liberalistic, liberality, liberalness, liberation, libertarian,
     libertarianism, libertine, libertinism, open-minded,
     open-mindedness, secular humanism, tolerance, tolerant, toleration,
     unbigoted, unbigotedness
  
  

















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