emancipation

The act of freeing people from someone else’s control or from unfair restrictions.

• The law brought emancipation to enslaved people.
• Women campaigned for their political emancipation.
• Emancipation from forced labor transformed their lives.

How to use it: emancipation of someone (The law provided for the emancipation of enslaved people.); emancipation from something (They fought for emancipation from colonial rule.)

Similar words: liberation, freeing

Opposites: enslavement

Common phrases: emancipation of someone, emancipation from something

The state of being free from someone else’s control or unfair restrictions.

• They finally enjoyed emancipation.
• Economic emancipation gave women greater independence.
• Full emancipation remained a distant hope.

How to use it: emancipation from something (Emancipation from parental control gave her new independence.)

Similar words: freedom, liberation

Opposites: enslavement

Common phrases: full emancipation, emancipation from something