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Although 'freeness' exists as a word, it is hardly ever used. q=freeness&l=0 site. There are eight examples of 'freeness' used in sentences and more than 31,000 entries for 'freedom'.
- Although 'freeness' exists as a word, it is hardly ever used.
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Although 'freeness' exists as a word, it is hardly ever used. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=freeness%2Cfreedom&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoot
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The most immediately obvious difference is that "freedom" is a far more common word. "freeness" almost looks like a made-up word to me.
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Although I agree that 'freeness' does not spring quickly to mind, I have heard it applied to non-human activity. In forestry, freeness would apply to the space for trees to grow and flourish. Some artistic expression involves freeness from categorising. The freeness of natural water makes a location ideal for a cabin. Is it just me? Whereas 'freedom' is most often followed by 'from', 'freenes
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"Freeness" is a word, but a trip to the OED finds that it was considered rare when that dictionary was first published. It can mean freedom generally, but also generosity, as the following example from the OED shows:
All the examples from Fraze.it seem to to be malconstructions, except the
... our freeness in the present may cause our freedom in the future.
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