English

Alternative forms

• free-thinker

Noun

freethinker ‎(plural freethinkers)

1. A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religion, religionist; African traditionalist,‎ animist,‎ Asatruar,‎ Baha'i,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ Confucianist,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Eckist,‎ freethinker,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jew,‎ LaVeyan,‎ Luciferian,‎ Muslim,‎ mysticist,‎ New Thoughter,‎ New Ager,‎ occultist,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ religious humanist,‎ Santerían,‎ Scientologist,‎ shamanist,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ spiritist,‎ Taoist,‎ Tenrikyoist,‎ Thelemite,‎ theosophist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ 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)

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