unfreedom

noun

1. (uncountable)The condition of being unfree.

   “A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress.”

   “It was as if all the unfreedom in which he'd spent his seven decades of life were embodied in this six-year-old but essentially brand-new chair.”

   “We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”

   “[T]he overall freedom of a corpse is nil because a corpse is not someone to whom social and political liberty (or unfreedom) can ever correctly be ascribed. Any living human being, by contrast, is someone to whom freedom and unfreedom can pertinently be attributed.”

   “She is her father's daughter in a way that has finally brought her back to unfreedom . . . the last misfortune bequeathed to her by the terrible man who was her father.”

2. (countable)A particular limitation of one's freedom.

   “Perhaps most notably, our enquiries into the existence of unfreedoms are steps toward the measurement of the overall freedom of each individual and of each society.”