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pseudo-liberation

pseudo-liberation is the alternative form of pseudoliberation.

Meaning of pseudoliberation

Noun

pseudoliberation (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoliberations)

  1. False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.
    • One moment I was ashamed and frightened, another recklessly optimistic. Taboos strangulated me. Psychoanalysts wooed me with pseudoliberations of pseudolibidoes.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC

Forms of pseudo-liberation

pluralpseudo-liberations

Questions about pseudo-liberation

What is pseudo-liberation the alternative form of?
Pseudo-liberation is the alternative form of pseudoliberation.

Words near pseudo-liberation in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-latinism
  2. pseudo-latinisms
  3. pseudo-legality
  4. pseudo-lesbian
  5. pseudo-lesbians
  6. pseudo-liberation
  7. pseudo-liberations
  8. pseudo-life
  9. pseudo-linguistics
  10. pseudo-lives
  11. pseudo-loan

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