freethinker

English

Alternative forms

• free-thinker

Etymology

From free +‎ thinker, since 1692.

Noun

freethinker (plural freethinkers)

1. A person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
2. (Singapore, Malaysia) A person with no religion.
   • 2015 April 6, Siau Ming En, “Religiosity on rise in Asia-Pacific, proportion of freethinkers on decline”, in Today Online‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 April 2015:

     The report projected that in the Asia-Pacific region, the proportion of freethinkers is projected to decline from 21 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2050.

Coordinate terms

religious adherentsedit

• agnostic
• Asatruar
• atheist
• Baháʼí
• Buddhist
• Christian
• deist
• Druid
• Druze
• Eckist
• heathen
• Hindu
• Jain
• Jedi
• Jew
• Mormon
• Mormonist
• Muslim
• Odinist
• pagan
• Pastafarian
• Quaker
• Raëlian
• Rastafarian
• Rodnover
• Samaritan
• Shintoist
• Sikh
• Taoist
• Unitarian Universalist
• Wiccan
• Yahwist
• Yazidi
• Zoroastrian

Derived terms

• freethinking
• free thought

Descendants

• Danish: fritænker (calque)
• French: libre-penseur (calque)
• German: Freidenker (calque)
  • Russian: вольноду́м (volʹnodúm), вольноду́мец (volʹnodúmec) (calque)

Translations

person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry

• Armenian: ազատամիտ (hy) (azatamit)
• Belarusian: вальнаду́мец m (valʹnadúmjec), вальнаду́мка f (valʹnadúmka)
• Catalan: lliurepensador (ca) m, lliurepensadora (ca) f
• Danish: fritænker c
• Esperanto: liberpensulo
• Finnish: vapaa-ajattelija
• French: libre-penseur (fr) m, libre-penseuse (fr) f
• Galician: librepensador m, librepensadora f
• Georgian: თავისუფლად მოაზროვნე (tavisuplad moazrovne)
• German: Freidenker (de) m, Freidenkerin (de) f
• Hungarian: szabadgondolkodó (hu)
• Irish: saorsmaointeoir m
• Italian: libero pensatore m, libero pensatrice f
• Kazakh: еркін ойлы (erkın oily)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritenker m

  Nynorsk: fritenkar m, fritenkjar m

• Polish: wolnomyśliciel (pl) m, wolnomyślicielka f
• Portuguese: livre-pensador m, livre-pensadora f
• Romanian: liber-cugetător (ro) m, liber-cugetătoare f
• Russian: вольноду̀мец (ru) m (volʹnodùmec), свободомы́слящий (ru) m (svobodomýsljaščij)
• Spanish: librepensador (es) m, librepensadora (es) f
• Ukrainian: вільноду́мець m (vilʹnodúmecʹ), вільноду́мка f (vilʹnodúmka)
• Welsh: rhydd-feddyliwr m, rhydd-feddyliwraig f