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Someone who treats rules as suggestions and calendars as fiction.
means A person who lives by their own instincts and values rather than following social convention or others' expectations.
from A straightforward compound rather than a borrowed or ancient word — 'free' from Old English 'frēo' (not in bondage, acting of one's own will) and 'spirit' from Latin 'spiritus' (breath, life-force, the animating self, via Old French 'espirit'). The phrase itself crystallized as English speakers needed a way to name someone whose inner life — their spiritus — answered to no master. 'Free' supplies the defiance, 'spirit' supplies the self being defied on behalf of.
- origin
- 18th century term, once meant religious nonconformist
- myers briggs link
- often self-assigned by every single ENFP
- red flag version
- commitment-phobe with better marketing
- compliment or warning
- depends entirely on whose rent is unpaid