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means Favoring individual liberty, openness to change, and tolerance of different views, often paired with support for reform and personal rights.

from From Latin liber, meaning 'free' — the root word for a free person as opposed to a slave. In Latin, liberalis described what was 'befitting a free person,' especially generous, open-handed manners and a proper education (the 'liberal arts' were studies fit for a free citizen, not a laborer). The word carried that whiff of openness and generosity into English, and by the 18th and 19th centuries it had picked up its political sense — someone inclined toward freedom, reform, and tolerance rather than rigid tradition.