All enfranchisement synonyms

noun enfranchisement

• empowerment — The granting of political, social or economic power to an individual or group.
• suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
• naturalization — to confer upon (an alien) the rights and privileges of a citizen.
• manumission — the act of manumitting.
• autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
• citizenship — If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
• democracy — A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it.
• emancipation — The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
• immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
• liberation — the act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
• privilege — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
• release — to lease again.
• relief — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
• self-determination — determination by oneself or itself, without outside influence.
• self-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
• sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
• abolition — The abolition of something such as a system or practice is its formal ending.
• abolitionism — the principle or policy of abolition, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.
• autarchy — unlimited rule; autocracy
• deliverance — Deliverance is rescue from imprisonment, danger, or evil.
• delivery — Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
• discharge — to relieve of a charge or load; unload: to discharge a ship.
• disengagement — the act or process of disengaging or the state of being disengaged.
• franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
• impunity — exemption from punishment.
• liberty — freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
• parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
• prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
• probation — the act of testing.
• redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
• rescue — to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
• salvage — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
• salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
• disimprison — to release from imprisonment.
• home rule — self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
• representative government — a person or thing that represents another or others.
• freedom — the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint: He won his freedom after a retrial.
• authorization — an authorizing or being authorized
• birthright — Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being.
• choice — If there is a choice of things, there are several of them and you can choose the one you want.
• convenience — If something is done for your convenience, it is done in a way that is useful or suitable for you.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• dispensation — an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
• independence — a city in W Missouri: starting point of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• leisure — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
• licence — license.
• license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
• opportunity — an appropriate or favorable time or occasion: Their meeting afforded an opportunity to exchange views.
• permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.